monarda punctata

1. 1.

   tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico

   Synonymshorsemint

   Broadermonarda

Questions about monarda punctata

What does monarda punctata mean?

monarda punctata means "tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico".

What is another word for monarda punctata?

Close synonyms include horsemint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monarda punctata a common word?

monarda punctata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.