Monarda punctataL.

spotted horsemint

WFO wfo-0000245372 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Monarda punctata, photographed by aarondamon
fig. a aarondamon, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204866074
Monarda punctata, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. b Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200154720
Monarda punctata, photographed by Kate Tillotson-Chavez
fig. c Kate Tillotson-Chavez, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195488095
Monarda punctata, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. d Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191241200
Monarda punctata, photographed by Neli Kanonerova
fig. e Neli Kanonerova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171862851
Monarda punctata, photographed by Neli Kanonerova
fig. f Neli Kanonerova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171895956
Monarda punctata, photographed by Tia Offner
fig. g Tia Offner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186937543
Monarda punctata, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. h Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167678388

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Flowering n = 2,062 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 2,062 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 10 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 lasiodonta (A.Gray) Small
  • Monarda lutea Michx.
  • Monarda punctata subsp. arkansana E.M.McClint. & Epling
  • Monarda punctata subsp. coryi E.M.McClint. & Epling
  • Monarda punctata subsp. immaculata Pennell
  • Monarda punctata subsp. intermedia E.M.McClint. & Epling
  • Monarda punctata subsp. occidentalis Epling
  • Monarda punctata subsp. villicaulis Pennell
  • Monarda punctata var. immaculata (Pennell) Scora
  • Monarda punctata var. leucantha Nash

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.