| Scientific Name: | Nepeta x faassenii cvs. |
| Common Name: | catmint |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| 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: | Arching, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Fragrance, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Herb, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Ovate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Violet, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate, most blades 2-4cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide, margins crenate, pubescent, very strong odour when crushed; flowers two-lipped, ~1cm high x 0.5mm wide, blue-violet (some white cvs.). | |