Pycnanthemum tenuifolium New Few native trees announce spring

Few native trees announce spring like Cercis canadensis

hardy in zones 7 to 9

provided the roots sit high and dry

'Filicoides'

and the tannin-rich bark also yielded ink and

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium New Few native trees announce springWhere blunt mountain mint is all broad silver, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium is the slender cousin, a fine textured native built from wiry stems and narrow, almost needle thin leaves. From midsummer into early fall the plant clouds over with flat topped clusters of tiny white to pale lavender flowers, faintly purple speckled, and the effect at a distance is a low haze of bloom. What the flowers lack in size they make up in draw: bees, small butterflies,