Monarda citriodoraCerv. ex Lag.

lemon beebalm

WFO wfo-0000245301 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Monarda citriodora, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. a Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204691847
Monarda citriodora, photographed by Katherine Parys
fig. b Katherine Parys, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201566874
Monarda citriodora, photographed by Rebecca Gimenez Husted
fig. c Rebecca Gimenez Husted, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200954158
Monarda citriodora, photographed by Nathan May
fig. d Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199114550
Monarda citriodora, photographed by Mimi Posey
fig. e Mimi Posey, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200824035
Monarda citriodora, photographed by Nathan May
fig. f Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199112541
Monarda citriodora, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. g saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196778005
Monarda citriodora, photographed by Luke Padon
fig. h Luke Padon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197789341

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Flowering n = 1,535 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,535 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Monarda aristata Nutt.
  • Monarda austromontana Epling
  • Monarda citriodora subsp. austromontana (Epling) Scora
  • Monarda citriodora var. attenuata Scora
  • Monarda dispersa Small
  • Monarda mexicana Epling
  • Monarda tenuiaristata Small

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.