Description: Unique, spotted lavender flowers with showy bracts.
Growth Habit: Upright, clump-forming perennial. 2ft height
Sun/Shade: Full sun.
Water Needs: Low to moderate; drought-tolerant.
Soil Preferences: Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil.
Benefits: Attracts pollinators and adds unique texture. Great for prairie plantings.
 
From Prairie Moon Nursery:
Spotted Bee Balm (also called Dotted Mint or Dotted Horsemint) prefers sandy soils and full to part sun. This Monarda is more tolerant of drought and intense sun than most in the genera. Monarda punctata is usually found in sand prairies, hill prairies, and Oak savannas. 
 
It is an eccentric beauty in form and color with complex blossoms topping 2’ stems in hues of pinkish-purple, green, beige, and maroon. These blossoms attract honeybees, bumblebees, and many butterflies, including Karner Blue butterfly. Spotted Bee Balm is also one of the host plants for the Raspberry pyrausta butterfly. The scent of this plant is repugnant to mammalian herbivores so is rarely consumed by them.