PYCNANTHEMUM MUTICUMCategory: PerennialBreeder: American Beauties Native PlantsHardiness Zone: 3 9Height: 24 36 inSpread: 24 36 inBloom Color: Pink ShadesSilvery bracts highlight dense clusters of small pinkish flowers from summer to early fall. The flowers are an extraordinarily good source of nectar for smaller types of butterflies. The leaves smell strongly of spearmint when they are crushed and, like many members of the mint family, the leaves may be used in teas.

deep green to nearly black foliage that looks blistered with its masses of bumps

»  Rounded

» 110 days to maturity

It would be a replacement for Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffruticosa’ (English Boxwood) for foundational plantings

» Easy to grow and thrives in wet conditions

» Slightly more compact than 'PJM'

Fast growing

well-shaped shrub that flowers all summer long while providing the nectar our pollinators crave

Description- This upright and arching plant lends itself to a number of landscape uses- either prune to create a formal hedge or leave natural to create just enough privacy

Productive

will turn its final color before its ripe so resist the urge to pick fruit when the color seems just right to you

superior branching and blooms early in the first summer in the landscape