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§1 Plant
Monarda media Willd.
vernacular purple bergamot — species · Lamiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Monarda
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 87 counties across 14 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 87 counties across 14 states/territories.
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Columbia 42037
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Fayette 42051
- Greene 42059
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Venango 42121
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MOME ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341410 ↗Record version
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