Monardella subglabra

Butterfly Mint Bush.

1Gal Container (Up to 2)

Monardella subglabra (Monardella villosa x Monardella purpurea), Mint Bush, is here being visited a skipper butterfly.

Monardella subglabra (Monardella purpurea x Monardella villosa), Mint Bush, is a natural hybrid, found growing where the two species meet.

Different species of butterflies, like this fritillary, sip nectar from the flowers of Monardella subglabra, Mint Bush.

Here a fritillary, and a pale swallowtail, that are sharing a plant of Monardella subglabra, Mint Bush, a fragrant subshrub.

Here in this closeup looking down on the flower of Monardella subglabra, Mint Bush, it almost appears spherical.

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Monardella subglabra, Butterfly Mint Bush, is a one foot tall perennial covered with one inch purple flowers in Jun-Jul. Butterfly Mint bush has a mint odor but much less than many others. Native to the Central Coast to So. Calif.. It likes part shade to sun. It will tolerate reg. garden water but becomes drought tolerant with age. It is cold tolerant to at least 10 deg.. I've seen this at the Santa Barbara Bot. Garden form a mass of bright purple with no foliage showing. It is not as showy in the nursery but still pretty and needs so little care we'd forgotten we'd planted it. It was covering an 3\' area of a flower bed with dark green foliage on a plant 2" tall. We remembered it was there when we finally got a little rainfall and it flowered. Ta! Da! Purple flowers all over the place! Our mother plant is 15 years old and still thriving. Syn. Monardella purpurea

Monardella subglabra tolerates sand.

Foliage of Monardella subglabra is evergreen and has fragrance.
Flower of Monardella subglabra has color violet.

Communities for Monardella subglabra:Closed-cone Pine Forest.

ph:	4.00 to 7.00
usda:	7 to 10
height[m]:	0.30 to 0.50
width[m]:	0.50 to 1.00
rainfall[cm]:	100.00 to 150.00

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