Please help identify this roadside plant

14 years ago

This plant is growing beside my father's mailbox in the Tyler, TX area. He says it hasn't been there before so it may be an annual.

Anyone have any idea what it is?

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User
14 years ago
Monrda, not sure which one you have.

Here is a link that might be useful: Monarda citriodora
carol23_gw
14 years ago
Monarda punctata, perhaps.

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lycopus
14 years ago
Looks like Monarda punctata to me. The plants I have grown have been perennial, but that might vary depending on the genotype.
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14 years ago
Monarda punctata, or a close relative. However, I live in Florida and it does not look this way until fall and this is mid-June. If it is a M. punctata the leave make a nice mild tea.If the tea is too strong it will be a tranquilizer. It contains thymol, the most abused drug by anesthesiologists and nurses.
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The drug that is abused occasionally, and sometimes fatally, by anesthesiologists is propofol, not thymol.

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