Limestone Calamint
Clinopodium arkansanumnative · Central Texas
Limestone Calamint is a perennial wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 1–1.5 ft tall and 1.5 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water. Blooms white, blue and purple in Jun–Jul. Good for bees and butterflies.
Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Perennial wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (5–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 1–1.5 ft
- Spread
- 1.5 ft
- Bloom
- Jun–Jul · white, blue, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on calcareous, moist, rocky, sand
- Wildlife
- Supports bees and butterflies
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Western Gulf Coastal Plain
37 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.