Virginia mountain mint

noun

: a perennial mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) of eastern North America with narrow leaves and clusters of very small white flowers

Virginia mountain mint produces frothy mounds of small white flowers spotted with purple in broad, flattened inflorescences.

—C. Colston Burrell, in Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants, 2006

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1936, in the meaning defined above

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