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§1 Plant
Melissa officinalis L.
vernacular common balm — species · Lamiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Melissa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 189 counties across 23 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 189 counties across 23 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 21 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Ashtabula 39007
- Athens 39009
- Belmont 39013
- Carroll 39019
- Clermont 39025
- Coshocton 39031
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Delaware 39041
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Franklin 39049
- Geauga 39055
- Hamilton 39061
- Highland 39071
- Hocking 39073
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Logan 39091
- Lorain 39093
- Montgomery 39113
- Morgan 39115
- Muskingum 39119
- Ottawa 39123
- Pickaway 39129
- Stark 39151
- Wayne 39169
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Somerset 42111
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 14 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MEOF2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341501 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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