| 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, Medicinal plant, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Blue, Pink, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 4-sided; leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, dark green, mild spearmint fragrance and taste; most (2-)5-7(-9)cm long x 1-2.5cm wide, petiole 1-4mm long, glabrous to slightly pubescent; flowers 4-lobed, mostly <3mm long, white to pink to lilac, in spike-like verticillasters. | |