Reverse Information: BEE BALM or OSWEGO TEA (Monarda didyma) - Uses: Use fresh, chopped, or dried leaves and flowers as a seasoning to flavor meat, beans and stews, jellies, or fresh fruit; leaves and flowers fresh or dried as a tea. Also, the young flowers and leaves can be added to a pot of cooked greens for a fine lemony taste, or add fresh flowers to salads or use as a lovely garnish for vegetable and fruit salads and teas. Dried flowers and leaves are a good addition to potpourri. Flowers: July and August. Habitat: Prairie hillsides, pastures, roadsides, banks, and occasionally in open woods, usually in rocky soil.