Please identify this plant

[karinothing]

This is growing in our pollinator garden. The leaves kind of smell like methanol. They are not fuzzy. Everyone keeps saying mint, but the leaves are a lot smoother than mint leaves IMO.

[simpsongal]

If you pull it, is it sending out runners w/new plants to spread? That would be evidence that it's mint. Otherwise I'm not sure what it is.

[karinothing]

Apr 23, 2019 7:13:07 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

If you pull it, is it sending out runners w/new plants to spread? That would be evidence that it's mint. Otherwise I'm not sure what it is.

hmm. There are runners, but I really don't think its mint lol. I ran it through a plant identifier app and it said Beebalm or common boneset. I looked up mint on the app and can't find one that looks like it, plus it indicates that mint plants are often downy and this is not.

[lightbulbsun]

It looks like bee balm to me. Good for attracting butterflies!

[calico]

Bee balm is in the mint family. Hummingbirds like it too!

Side question- which app did you use?

[karinothing]

calico, The app is called "PictureThis"

It be funny if it was bee balm since I didn't plant it and it just happens to be a pollinator garden

[bhnumbers]

are the stems square? if so, it's in the mint family (random crap I remember from nature camp in middle school, lol)

[calico]

karinothing, thanks. DH needs to download something now that he has proven that he can't identify poison freaking ivy. Which, we have learned, he is also ALLERGIC to.

When I saw the picture, I was thinking- why can't I have good stuff randomly growing in my yard, instead of freaking ivy and mugwart. Lucky!

[karinothing]

Apr 23, 2019 9:03:28 GMT -5 calico said:

karinothing , thanks. DH needs to download something now that he has proven that he can't identify poison freaking ivy. Which, we have learned, he is also ALLERGIC to.

When I saw the picture, I was thinking- why can't I have good stuff randomly growing in my yard, instead of freaking ivy and mugwart. Lucky!

Don't worry I have plenty of weeds