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| name = Lemon mint<br />
| image = Monarda citriodora.jpg<br />
| image_width = 240px<br />
| regnum = [[Plantae]]<br />
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]<br />
| familia = [[Lamiaceae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Monarda]]''<br />
| species = '''''citriodora'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Monarda citriodora''<br />
}}<br />
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'''Lemon mint''' (''Monarda citriodora''), also called purple horse mint or lemon beebalm, is, as the names imply, a member of the [[mint]] family ([[Lamiaceae]]), which has a [[citrus]] smell when crushed, reminiscent of the fruit of the actual [[lemon]] plant, and which has purple flowers that prove irresistible to both [[bees]] and [[hummingbirds]]. Sometimes, especially late in the season, the odor is described as resembling oregano more than lemon.<br />
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This widespread plant grows in prairies, roadsides and other sunny habitats from California to Florida, and from Nebraska to Texas. It prefers soils with a high percentage of clay, such as the vertisols and mollisols typical of tallgrass prairies, where it sometimes forms impressive blankets of summer flowers.<br />
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Most recipes bearing the name "lemon mint" actually use [[spearmint]] and the juice or other components of the actual fruit of the lemon plant rather than this plant. However, lemon mint is occasionally used in herbal teas.<br />
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