![]() The rhizomes can survive earth-moving and bulldozing operations, and send up plants in unexpected places. Habitats include moist to slightly dry black soil prairies, hill prairies, sandy Black Oak woodlands, savannas and woodland borders, thickets, borders of limestone glades, abandoned pastures, and landfills. These rhizomes typically send up multiple leafy stems in a tight cluster, giving Bergamot a bushy appearance. The root system consists of deep, strongly branched roots, and shallow rhizomes that are responsible for the vegetative spread of the plant. The blooming period occurs during mid-summer and lasts about 1 month. It has toothed, aromatic, oblong, grayish-green leaves. Each flower head is subtended by (rests upon) a whorl of showy, pinkish, leafy bracts. Lavender, two-lipped, tubular flowers appear in dense, globular, solitary, terminal heads atop square stems. Bergamot is a clump-forming, mint family member that grows typically to 2-4 feet tall. It occurs in dryish soils on prairies, dry rocky woods and glade margins, unplanted fields and along roads and railroads. Its species name, fistulosa, refers to the tube-like structure of its blossoms, which appear from July through September. Wild Bergamot is a favorite of butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. It is a familiar component of prairie and savanna communities on all but the wettest of soils. Bergamot, Monarda fistulosa, also called Bee Balm or Horse-Mint has a lovely violet blossom and distinctively aromatic foliage.
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