![]() According to, the only one that lives here is the California Pyrausta moth. Coyote mint hosts up to eight moths throughout California. Native means ecosystem supportīeing a native plant often means that it supports insects that our birds rely on for food. And by all means consider it a part of a planting of native shrubs and trees to create low water, deer resistant plantings in your landscape that feed native insects and birds. Some plants to plant with itĬalifornia poppies, groundcover manzanitas, and native grasses go nicely with it. It can be used as a nice edging plant, a small, low shrub in native plantings, to line walkways, and at the edge of a rock wall where the plant can spill over and show off its flowers. Herbs from the Mediterranean like thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage, and lavender like dry conditions and coyote mint will fit right into a garden with these plants. Since it likes dry conditions coyote mint is a good plant for rock gardens and dry herb gardens. And I’ll plant the mother plant in its new spot. They’re actually in a great place that needed filling. So I cut the stems from the mother plant and let them stay there. When I decided where to plant it I found that not only was it rooted in through the pot, but many of the stems were rooted, too. So I kept watering it in its pot through early summer. I had purchased a plant and postponed planting it because I hadn’t decided on where to plant it. ![]() After rooting, the new baby plant can be cut from the mother plant, dug up, and replanted elsewhere. This makes it easy for you to establish many plants. While a mint sends out stolons to expand itself all aver, coyote mint sends out semi-woody stems to get to its width, and some of those stems lay on the ground and root, increasing the spread of the plant. And it spreads, but not vigorously and rambunctiously as mint does. It has fragrant, yet spicy foliage, like mint. If you don’t have good drainage, you can improve the soil structure before planting and consider even less water in the summer, perhaps only one or two deep soakings through the summer, It spreads its stems out and roots fairly easilyĬoyote mint is in the mint family but it has round stems unlike mint. But to keep the plant looking better through the summer, a goal for our landscapes, we can water it…a little.Ĭ recommends irrigating up to 2 times per month, at most, through the hot season. This means its leaves can drop off when the plant gets too much heat and drought and new leaves will emerge when conditions are better. It is drought tolerant, but it’s also summer semi-deciduous. It usually means we can put it in our driest situations. ![]() ![]() But that doesn’t mean we can’t use it in our landscapes. Drought tolerant and deer resistantĬoyote mint likes to live in dry, gravelly soils, and on rocky slopes. And you can use whole flower heads in a tea as described below. You can use the petals either fresh or dried as a colorful garnish for salads. To watch the butterflies, place the plants in a spot to get an up-close view. The flowers are balls of pinkish-purple petals that attract butterflies and bees. Coyote mint flower with tiny native bee Flowers for bees and butterflies ![]()
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