Lavender Mint. Clinopodium nepeta, Lesser Calamint, and Common Carder Bee, Bombus pascuorum, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The great OED writes that 'Calamint' seems to be derived from the ancient Greek for 'beautiful mint', but concedes that this is 'perhaps only popular etymology'. The 'nepeta' is an ancient word for 'from Nepi', a town in Etruria, Italy, apparenly already used by Pliny.

Here are the pretty delicate lavender flowers in the Hortus Botanicus of Amsterdam. Their visitor is a Common Carder Bee, Bombus pascuorum.

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