Mint Family...Lamiaceae
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Monarda fistulosa known too as Bee Balm, Eastern Bergamot and Wild Bergamot.
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I must admit that this image is pure serendipity - a moment of magic with the last light of day illuminating a lone Monarda aka Bee Balm flower in the evening garden.
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Although the Monarda Bee Balm flowers are past their prime, they are still attracting the juvenile hummingbirds in my garden. Almost a full frame image.
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I found quite a large clump of these lovely wildflowers this past summer. I'm noticing that more and more people are planting bergamot, also known as beebalm or monarda, due to the increased interest in wildflowers and in attracting pollinators. All types of monarda are adored by both bees and butterflies.
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Monarda 'Jacob Kline' aka Bee Balm is blooming in my garden right now, giving me a laugh every time I see it with its tousled and messy petals. Its bright, red color cannot be ignored!
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A Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly!!! She is sipping nectar from our Bee Balm (Monarda) flowers).
Monarda is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. The genus is endemic to North America. Common names include bergamot, bee balm, horsemint, oswego tea, the first inspired by the fragrance of the leaves, which is reminiscent of bergamot orange. Wikipedia
Family: Lamiaceae
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Even though they grow in the back of my garden, Monarda 'Jacob Kline' or Bee Balm always captures my attention. I love their dramatic color & form!
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Some red blossom (Monarda didyma) with a bee on short final. Spotted in the Burggarten of the Hohes Schloss, a castle above the town of Füssen.
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that's backlit with baby's breath in the background.
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The blooming of my favorite flower gave me the kick in the pants I needed to shoot again. It's been a long time and I felt clumsy and awkward with the camera. The morning light changes constantly as it flickers through the trees.
The early morning light was coming in sideways through the big trees. I put the viewfinder up to my face and at that moment a flash of light made its way through the leaves right onto the bloom. The air was very heavy that morning. The combination made for some kaleidoscopic bokeh.
I just noticed if I enlarge this, there is some kind of green insect on the bottom of the Monarda. I'm not sure what it is. Glad it didn't bite me.
The bokeh is created by light coming through my lattice fence and reflecting off flowers. Somehow the lens picked this up and created the bubble bokeh. I like it better than my butterfly that I captured.
Captured with my micro lens so lots of details enlarged.
Spotted Horsemint is Florida's only native Moranda species. It is a short-lived weedy plant that grows 4-5 feet tall. It attracts a horde of pollinators, including some rare solitary wasps (the pictured wasp, Feather-legged Scoliid Wasp) is more common).
The pink bract, variable in intensity, are not the flowers. The yellow spotted flowers are the mail attraction for the pollinators, which include honeybees, bumblebees, miner bees, the endangered plasterer bees, swallowtail butterflies, and the endangered Karner Blue.
Horsemint makes a nice, intentionally weak tea. Stronger brews are used in herbal medicine. The Native Americans made a “sweating” tea from it to treat colds. The major oil in Horsemint is thymol. Externally it’s an antiseptic and vermifuge, internally, in large amounts, the plant can be fatal. That’s the bad news. So, it makes a nice, intentionally weak, tea.
Monarda punctata, commonly called Spotted Bee Balm or Horsemint, is a native herbaceous perennial that typically grows to 1'-2' tall. The stems and leaves are hairy and the flower tubes are pale yellow with purple spots, less than an inch long. The leaves smell like Greek oregano.
Butterflies, skippers, hummingbird moths, hummingbirds, honeybees, bumblebees and other native bees sip nectar from the flowers.
Monarda 'Raspberry Wine' has the most beautiful rosy colored leaves when they first open around a flower. I've gotten more than my money's worth from this $10 plant. Hopefully next year it will come back even more robust. I and the hummingbirds are enjoying it immensely.
The meadow across from a home is full of wild flowers and the monarda are in bloom.
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This Monarda flower is nearing the end of it's run for the season; almost no petals left. It performed beautifully in its first summer in my garden. If it returns nice and healthy next spring, I will plant more.