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Scientific Name: | Mentha spicata |
Common Name: | spearmint |
Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
Origin: | Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
Habit: | Dense, Upright |
Form: | Round |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Herb, Perennial border |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Heavily veined, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate |
Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Blue, Pink, Aug-Sep |
Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown |
Key ID Features: | |
Stems 4-sided; leaves opposite, ovate to lanceolate, dark green, mild spearmint fragrance and taste; most 2-7(-8)cm long x 1-2.5cm wide; flowers 4-lobed, mostly <3mm long, white to pink to lilac, in spike-like verticillasters. |