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Mentha arvensis - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Corofin, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Mentha arvensis - Flowering branch - Click to enlarge!

Flowering branch; Corofin, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Mentha arvensis - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Corofin, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Mentha arvensis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Corofin, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1997
Date of entry: 25.08.2012
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Field mint

German: Acker-Minze

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Lamiales (196)

        Family: Lamiaceae (97)(family description)

          Genus: Mentha (5)

            Epithet: arvensis L. (12)

arvensis => growing in fields

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet, pink

External links

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