Must be a wildflower?

I didn't plant it so it must be a wildflower. It's growing in the corner of the yard. Is it likely to take over? If not I'll leave it because I think it's pretty. dooley


Unknown wild flower ( photo / image / picture from dooley's Garden )

 

With bracts like that it really looks like some kind of Salvia.

 

How about Castilleja, indian paint brush? Not sure about the color.

Jerry

 

It looks like spotted horsemint, also called spotted beebalm. It grows in the fields around where I live. I'd let it grow in my garden because butterflies like it. Love those volunteers. :-D

 

Monarda punctata to the rest of us. At least I was in the correct genus, the Lamium family.

 

Thanks! I looked it up in my Texas Herb Book and found a picture of it and that's what it looks like. I think I will keep it. I found two more of them in other parts of the yard.
dooley

 

Oooooooh Dooley, what a great picture for the plant database. There is no image for Monarda punctata.

Jerry

 

Didn`t know what it was but we have it here in my part of Texas too !!

 

We have it in our field, and bees do like it! Almost any of the monardas are bee friendly, besides being pretty, too.