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Wild Bergamot or Bee Balm is a perennial, native wildflower. Clusters of lavender, pink or white flowers, looking like ragged pompoms, bloom at the top of two to four-foot, open branched stems. It flowers in two, four-inch heads. The one to three-inch, coarsely toothed, lance-shaped leaves smell minty. It grows in dry open woodlands, fields, wet meadows, and ditches in well-drained but moist sand, loam, clay, acidic or calcareous soils. (July)