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Besides attracting many bees, flies and wasps, this mint draws the pearl crescent butterfly.
Mint can be added to salads, or cooked with other vegetables. Makes a pleasant tea which can relieve indigestion. (Plants for a Future)
Habitat Information: Moist to normal soil, black soil prairies, sandy prairies, moist prairies and meadows, woodland edge, thickets, fens, swamps, rocky bluffs. Mammals dislike this plant for forage. (Illinois Wildflowers)
Garden Uses: This plant is rather aggressive in gardens, less so in dry soils. Delicate white flowers are attractive, long lasting, and very aromatic. They have small lance shaped leaves on many branched square stems. Attracts butterflies. (Johnson, L., 100 Easy To Grow Native Plants, 1999)
Insect Relationships: Leaf chewing insects dislike the taste of the plant. Flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by insects. Pollinating insects strongly attracted by nectar: including bees, wasps, flies, small butterflies, and beetles, honeybees, cuckoo bees, Halictid bees, Sphecid wasps, Eumenine wasps, bee flies, Tachinid flies, wedge shaped beetles, and pearl cresecent butterflies. (Illinois Wildflowers)
Traditional Edible, Medicinal Uses: The flower buds and leaves are both edible, raw or cooked. The mint flavoured leaves are great in salads, used as a condiment, and can be brewed for a refreshing tea which is good for menstrual disorders, indigestion, colic coughs, chills and fevers. The tea has medicinal properties. There is some suggestion that this plant may cause abortions, so pregnant women should not ingest this plant. A poultice of the leaves is used for headaches. (Plants for a Future)
Green Roof: This drought hardy plant has been grown in soil levels 5 inches and up with good results. (Evergreen)
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