RSS305 - Bergamot - If you watch in the shady, moist ditches and in the edges of the tree covered areas, you might be lucky enough to find a stand of wild Bergamot, or Beebalm, growing. This member of the mint family can get up to around two and a half feet tall. It has a pleasant 'musky' type of scent, rather than a mint smell. I gathered a couple of dozen of these plants and planted them in my flower bed out front. If I can keep my kids from 'pulling the weeds' maybe I'll have a stand of them for myself next spring. They seem to bloom after it starts getting hot, but while there is still the occasional heavy rains to keep the shaded areas moist. I took this picture and gathered mine in June of 2005.