Lemon mint (Monarda citriodora) is a species of plant native to the United States and Mexico. What brought me to this plant was witnessing something special it had and seeing that for the first time at the Vanier gardens; its scent which smelt like lemons when you crushed its leaves. When Mark was explaining this plant to us, I thought," Oh, just another typical plant." but when Mark made us smell, it made me change my perspective on it. Its rather fascinating how a plant can produce a smell that we associate with a fruit. In my mind this raises many questions: How did it evolve to have this…