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Scientific Name: | Mentha suaveolens |
Common Name: | apple mint |
Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
Origin: | Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Herb, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Oblong, Ovate, Serrate |
Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Violet, Pink, Jun-Jul |
Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Sep |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves opposite, petioles short, blades ovate to oblong, serrate, up to 8cm long, with fruiting smell and taste; florets in terminal spike-like verticillasters, pink to white. |