| Mentha spicata L. | |||
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| Family | Labitae — APG family: Lamiaceae | ||
| Common name | spearmint | ||
| Description | Stoloniferous; stem erect, glabrous; leaves sessile, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, serrate, acute, glabrous on both faces; inflorescence a terminal, cylindrical spike; bracts linear-setaceous, longer than flowers; pedicels and calyx glabrous; corolla lilac, glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Introduced at Manley Hot Springs. Type locality not given, presumably Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | M. piperita L., peppermint, considered to be the hybrid M. aquatica X spicata, has been found escaped from cultivation in several places; it differs in having flowers in spikes, petiolated leaves and pedicels, and a glabrous calyx tube. |
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.