| Mentha arvensis L. | |||
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| Family | Labitae — APG family: Lamiaceae | ||
| Common name | field mint | ||
| Description | Stem simple or branched, erect or ascending, more or less hairy, terminated by leaves; leaves ovate, oblong, or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, serrate, petiolated; flowers in broadly separated axillary whorls; bracts leaflike, gradually reduced upward, longer than flowers; calyx teeth scarcely longer than broad, deltoid; corolla lilac, hairy on outside. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, riverbanks. Described from Europe. Circumpolar map gives range of the entire complicated complex. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Extremely variable. Most Alaskan specimens, with pubescent leaves and stem, belong to var. villosa (Benth.) Steven [M. canadensis L., M. arvensis L. var. canadensis (L.) Briq., M. canadensis var. villosus Benth.], but var. villosa {. glabrata Stev., with glabrescent leaves and less pubescent stem, also occurs, at hot springs. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.