Scientific Name: Mentha cervina
Common Name: water spearmint, Hart's pennyroyal
Family Name: Lamiaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Irregular
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Aquatic - ponds, Attract beneficial insects, Herb
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist
Soil or Media: Bog
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Linear, Oblanceolate, Entire
Flowers: Verticillaster, White, Blue, Violet, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Schizocarp
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, linear-oblanceolate, entire or with a few rounded teeth on each side, spearmint smell; florets forming globular clusters at peduncle nodes.