Common Name:

savory, Georgia calamint

Synonym(s):

Genus species:

Calamintha georgiana

Family:

Lamiaceae (Labiatae)

Form:

shrub

Size:

1-2 ft tall by 1-2 ft wide

Life Span:

short-lived perennial

Flower Color:

lavender

Fruit Color:

Phenology:

partially deciduous; flowers mostly late fall into winter

Noted For:

Recommended Uses:

This small shrub can be used in a dry wildflower garden or grown as a low border along paths. It would also work as a foundation plant.

Considerations:

Difficult to establish.

Availability:

Propagation:

seed, cuttings

Light:

Moisture Tolerance:

Always Flooded------------------------------------------------Extremely Dry

Not wet but not extremely dry ---to--- Very long very dry periods

Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water

Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:

Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Soil or Other Substrate:

Sand

Soil pH:

Suitable to Grow In:

8A, 8B

Wildlife:

Native Habitats:

Edges of dry bluffs and roadsides through sandhill

Natural Range in Florida:

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Ethnobotany:

General Comments:

State endangered. Many of the plants labelled "Georgia calamint" in nurseries are actually a hybrid of Calamintha georgiana and one of the native Conradinas.