Virginia Mountain Mint – Pycnanthemum virginianum | Aromatic Cajun Healing Herb

The Most Fragrant Plant in the Healing Garden

Virginia Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) is a powerhouse of scent and medicine. Crush a leaf and the sharp, clean fragrance of wild mint fills the air — a scent that Traiteurs knew well. Used historically as a tea for headaches, fevers, colds, and digestive complaints, it’s also one of the single best pollinator plants in the native plant world. Bees, wasps, butterflies, and beetles swarm its tiny white blooms all summer long.

• Light: Full sun to part shade
• Evergreen: No
• Maintenance: Low

Grow it for the medicine. Keep it for the pollinators. Love it for the scent.