When it blooms
In bloom: July to September
How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Dry, Moist
- Size
- 60–120 cm
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Native to
- Saskatchewan
What it feeds
Wild Bergamot is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Barn SwallowThreatenedBirdA bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
Bank SwallowThreatenedBirdIt feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
Olive-sided FlycatcherThreatenedBirdIt perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
Eastern Wood-PeweeSpecial concernBirdIts slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native plants support.
Transverse Lady BeetleSpecial concernBeetleOur native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
Photos: Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by John, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Barn Swallow also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Wild Bergamot where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.