English: Sierra mint; Mountain mint; California mint.
Region: California.
Habitat: elevations of 500 to 1900 metres; chaparral, California oak woodland, California mixed evergreen forest, Yellow pine forest.
Content: pulegone; carvacrol; menthone, isomenthone, beta-elemene, limonene, piperitone, germacrene d.
Use: insect-repellent; for moth deterrent sachets; leaves as hunting and fishing aids, to scent mink traps.
BotanyHerb; perennial; erect 0.5 to 1 metre tall.
Leaves: opposite; lance-shaped to nearly oval; few cm long; hairless to fussy, aromatic.
Inflorescences: in clusters; about the stem just above each upper pair of leaves.
Flowers: whitish upper lip, purplish lower lip, sometimes with spots; blooming from June through September.
Pollination: by bees, flies, butterflies, moths, birds.