Talk:Pycnanthemum incanum

• "endangered": Shouldn't this say "listed as an endangered species at the far northernmost limits of its range, in Vermont and New Hampshire." The endangerment is local, is it not?--Wetman 11:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Vermont and New Hampshire were not the only places it was considered endangered. Canada also listed it as endangered per the Endangered Species Act listed in the references, but gave no further details in the document I found, such as which parts of Canada were affected. As most references I find on the internet are considered copyrighted, I have tried to stick only with the info that can be freely shared. There may be more specific info available out there, which begs a question: To fine tune a fact such as this, how do you handle it when most of the info available comes from various websites who do not appear to be free to share? I have chosen the course of being very cautious in this regard, not wanting to step on copyrighted toes.--Gypsyware 18:37, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Just put the information into your own words and put your source into a <ref></ref> reference. The specific text is copyright: the information and the words necessary to frame it ("endangered", "herb" etc) are not. The addition of Canada further demonstrates the "locally endangered" perspective of these sources: "an endangered species at the far northernmost limits of its range" would be more to the point. --Wetman 22:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge info

The following information was unreferenced and on a parallel page (Hoary mountain mint) that was recently created:

The Hoary Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum incanum) is a moderately tall, perennial herb in the Mint family. This plant bears clusters of small, soft white flowers are arranged in tight clusers on the ends of one meter long stalks. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, are bluish green in color, oval in shape with a blunt, rounded tip and very hairy on their undersides. The stalks of this plant, as with all Mint plants are square in shape, with sharp, defined corners. Hoary Mountain Mint naturally spreads across the ground, covering large areas within it's prefered habitats and can reproduce vegetatively as well as by pollintation and the dispersal of seeds.

The oils which are found in the leaves of the Hoary Mountain Mint, as well as all other Mint plants, are valued for their medicinal properties and are being researched for many other properties that they may contain to further benifit medical science. The most common use of this plant is for consumption. The leaves are commonly steeped in boiling water to create a hot, yet cool and refreshing tea that is used to sooth the throat and stomach, induce sleep, reduce the pains of nasal or throat congestion, and many more common ailments.

Native Range

The Hoary Mountain Mint is found in eastern North America, ranging from southern Ontario, east to New York, south to Tennessee and Georgia and west to southeastern Missouri. This plant prefers to grow on dry, partially shaded open fields and slopes near the edges of forests and clearings in sandy or clay soils. This Mint plant and many other members of the family are planted in gardens or grown all over the world.

Significance in southern Ontario

the Hoary Mountain Mint, in southern Ontario, is listed as endangered provincially and nationally, and this protects the plant against harm to itself or it's habitat. This plant was reported to be never be very common in southern Ontario, but has unfortunately, yet remarkably, been reduced to a single plant found in a single location within the entire province. This plant is situated in a classified location in Burlington, and is under investigation as to why this is the last plant left, and if there are any ways of saving the species from extinction in Ontario. Currently, the future of the Hoary Mountain Mint in Canada looks very bleek, with the last plant soon to die before any projects of recovery can even be started.

Please merge and reference what you can into this page. Thanks, Rkitko ^(talk) 20:28, 3 March 2009 (UTC)