Scientific name: Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Lamiales: Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata
Common Name: Spearmint
Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: not applicable
Date: 26 April 2001
Photographer: E. M. Barrows
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location:
Keywords: A forb perennial Garden-1 GU light pink flowers light violet flowers perennial Additional Information:
This species is native to Europe.
Peppermint and Spearment are similar species.
Peppermint leaves have petioles, and Spearmint leaves do not have them.
Brown, M. L. and R. G. Brown.
1984.
Herbaceous Plants of Maryland.
Port City Press, MD.
1127 pp.
Page 828.
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