Monarda fistulosaL.

wild bergamot

WFO wfo-0000245324 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Monarda fistulosa, photographed by Mark G
fig. a Mark G, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205563125
Monarda fistulosa, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. b Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204563010
Monarda fistulosa, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. c Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202522687
Monarda fistulosa, photographed by John Michael
fig. d John Michael, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184432574
Monarda fistulosa, photographed by Nart Barileva
fig. e Nart Barileva, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173695019
Monarda fistulosa, photographed by Jessica Williams
fig. f Jessica Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170351718
Monarda fistulosa, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. g Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182487190
Monarda fistulosa, photographed by Alan Jeon
fig. h Alan Jeon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201578843

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Flowering n = 6,703 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 6,703 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 36 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 affinis Link
  • Monarda albiflora C.Morren
  • Monarda barbata Wender.
  • Monarda coerulea Benth.
  • Monarda comata Rydb.
  • Monarda commutata Wender.
  • Monarda cristata Benth.
  • Monarda dubia Benth.
  • Monarda fistulosa f. albescens Farw.
  • Monarda fistulosa f. albiflora (Farw.) Sherff
  • Monarda fistulosa f. oblongata (Aiton) Voss
  • Monarda fistulosa f. russellii B.Boivin
  • Monarda fistulosa subsp. menthifolia (Graham) L.S.Gill
  • Monarda fistulosa var. typica Sherff
  • Monarda hybrida Wender.
  • Monarda involucrata Wender.
  • Monarda lilacina Wender.
  • Monarda longifolia Lam.
  • Monarda menthifolia Graham
  • Monarda menthifolia var. praerea Lunell
  • Monarda mollis L.
  • Monarda mollis f. albiflora Farw.
  • Monarda mollis var. menthifolia Fernald
  • Monarda oblongata Aiton

and 12 more.

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.