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.