NOUN
- an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico
- a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States
- 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
How To Use horsemint In A Sentence
- Monarda punctata, L. Dotted monarda; horsemint; origanum. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- She ran back, found the dried horsemint, and added hot water to the leaves. The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Wrap it in a rag and put it in a pitcher with a little sage, horsemint and other sweating herbs. More Than 'Just a Spoonful of Sugar' May Be Required
- Other names for this plant are plains horsemint, tall horsemint, lemon-mint, and lemon beebalm.
- Members of the mint family, horsemints all have strongly aromatic foliage, the fragrances varying between the species.
- There's lavender and horsemint, and calamus to burn when you go inteu the room. Margaret
- In central Texas, coreopsis, brown-eyed susans, bull nettle, purple horsemint, basil beebalm, lantana and dayflowers continue to bloom.
- We made bouquets from the great beds of horsemint with its tiny white blossom, and we shelled the milkweed pod and with the white silky hair stuffed mattresses for our dolls. My beloved South,
- They smelled of Sierra Free dish detergent scented with calendula and horsemint. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- When it dries, wet it again with cold water poured on the bandage, "she finished in a rush, then paused to think" And dried horsemint flowers and leaves are good for scalds; wet them in the hand and put them on the burn. The Clan of the Cave Bear
