![]() ![]() Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution. It can be used as a nice edging plant, a small, low shrub in native plantings, to line. Herbs from the Mediterranean like thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage, and lavender like dry conditions and coyote mint will fit right into a garden with these plants. ![]() Flowers: Tiny, light purple to pink, in rounded clusters. Since it likes dry conditions coyote mint is a good plant for rock gardens and dry herb gardens. Leaf retention: Evergreen but drought-deciduous. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Coyote Mint Description Form: Herbaceous stems growing from a woody base (subshrub). Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The lush gray green leaves enjoy sun to light shade, and the plant produces 1 to2 inch round lavender blooms in summertime from June through August, a favorite of butterflies and other native pollinators.
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