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Bayer Code : menar

Scientific name: Mentha arvensis L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Mentha lapponica Wahlenb.

Classification: Labiatae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: corn mint

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Minze ; ES : hierba buena de burro ; FR : menthe des champs ; IT : menta campestre ; PT : hortela-brava ; EN : corn mint ; NL : akkermunt, NL : pepermunt ; DK : agermynte

Biological type: Perennial with rhizomes

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons spatulate.

- Leaves entire, deeply notched.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-60 cm.

- Stem 4-angled, dull-green or slightly crimson, prostrate to ascending with aerial and underground shoots sparsely covered with spreading hairs.

- Leaves stalked, elliptic or ovate with a toothed border. Bracts as long as the leaves.

- Flowers pink-purplish in many-flowered pseudo-whorls. Calyx campanulate, 10-veined, 1-3 mm long,, with teeth 0.5-1 mm long. Corolla more or less regularly 4-lobed, 4-6 mm long, usually with a hairy tube without marked lips. Mericarps ovoid, smooth, 0.5 mm long.

- Fruit : achenes ovoid and smooth.

- Plant with a scent of mint when crushed.

- Biological type: perennial with rhizomes.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Present     Denmark  Present     Spain  Rare     France  Present     Great Britain  Present     Italy  Present    

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