Mint search while in Virginia and West Virginia (June 2024)

Travel notes for personal future reference and possibly posterity.

Checklist of mints to find:

• Agastache nepetoides
• Blephilia ciliata
• Callicarpa dichotoma
• Chaiturus marrubiastrum
• Lycopus virginicus
• Meehania cordata
• Monarda brevis
• Monarda clinopodia
• Monarda didyma
• Pycnanthemum incanum
• Pycnanthemum torreyi
• Scutellaria saxatilis
• Scutellaria serrata

Charlottesville City Limits

Ragged Mountain

Pycnanthemum incanum
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54259255

Lycopus virginicus
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/158914618

Rivanna Trail

Lycopus
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97491726 Inaccurate
Hedeoma pulegioides
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151132982 Inaccurate

Avon Street Ext.

Pycnanthemum torreyi
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/61117146
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/61117291

Skyline Drive

Jarman Gap

Scutellaria serrata
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48241552

Doyles River Overlook

Monarda clinopodia
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84240607
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53969052
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173510222 (one mile away from first site if necessary)

Scutellaria serrata
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49972358
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25643451 (two miles away from first site if necessary)

Frazier Discovery Trailhead

Monarda clinopodia
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51961658
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171969482

Ivy Creek Overlook

Chaiturus marrubiastrum
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31109540 possible vegetative

Hightop Summit Trailhead

Monarda clinopodia
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173499537
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88083014
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90170513

Bootens Gap

Monarda clinopodia
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172593379
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125704027

Hazeltop Ridge Overlook

Monarda clinopodia
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85552098 no uncertainty recorded
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173921189

Harry F. Byrd, Sr. Visitor Center

Pycnanthemum (check cultivation status of some unlikely occurrences)

Lycopus
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180561589

Hawksbill Gap

Monarda clinopodia
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150365477

Old Rag Fire Road

Chaiturus marrubiastrum
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/59732186
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85542853

Monarda clinopodia
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125964933
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85543833
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171031854

Monarda didyma

• Two well-documented locations. Check along stream margins. May be budding/flowering.
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/346287
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/174953799
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/160492457
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175804887

Beahms Gap Overlook

Chaiturus marrubiastrum
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181307699 possible vegetative

Elkwallow Picnic Area

Scutellaria saxatilis
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57339192
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83039122

38.775230, -78.211046 "Saxatilis Ridge"

Scutellaria saxatilis
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105629762

Smoke Hole

Monarda brevis and Blephilia ciliata throughout

Smoke Hole roadside hills 1 ( 38.855281, -79.280888 )

• Park at the turnoff and search hills

Smoke Hole roadside hills 2 ( 38.867196, -79.271652 )

• Park at the turnoff and search hills

Smoke Hole roadside hills 3 ( 38.888515, -79.250489 )

• Park at the turnoff and search hills

Big Bend Campground

• Go up hill

Redman Run Trailhead

• Hike on the eastern trail

Cranberry Glades Botanical Area

Meehania cordata

Cranberry Glades Boardwalk

Cow Pasture Trail to Cranberry Glades Observation Tower

Notes after the Trip

• All species on the checklist were observed except Agastache nepetoides, Callicarpa dichotoma, Monarda brevis, and Pycnanthemum torreyi. Another time...
• 105 observations from 31 species of Lamiaceae

Posted on July 27, 2024 10:03 PM by alex_abair