Monardella antonina - Butterfly mint bush

Butterfly mint bush (Monardella antonina) is an evergreen, gray-green perennial of the rain-shadowed central California ranges, its minty foliage steeped for tea. It grows 0.5-1 m tall and wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Herb
• Perennial
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Attracting beneficial insects¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.5-1
Diameter (m)	0.5-1

Footnotes

1. Monardella antonina, Butterfly Mint Bush | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩