Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Mentha aquatica L.


LAMIACEAE Family selection - Mint family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Mentha aquatica L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 576 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Water mint
en English name: bergamot mint
English name: eau-de-cologne mint
Spanish name: yerba buena
French name: menthe acuatique
Italian name: Menta d'acqua
German name: Wasser-Minze

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Mentha citrata Ehrh.
= Mentha x piperi L. var. citrata (Ehrh.) B. Boivin (pro nm.)
= Mentha piperita L. ssp. citrata (Ehrh.) Briq.


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Mentha aquatica L. var. crispa (L.) Benth.



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Mentha
Species:


Page counter: 3178 ( AVG: 218.81 / 217.747 )



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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 150.

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Salvai

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 151.

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Salvai

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
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Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AR, CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), USA+ (Puerto Rico), CAN (BC, NS, ON, QC)

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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Mentha aquatica L. var. crispa (L.) Benth. [273]
2) Mentha arvensis L. [3072]
3) Mentha arvensis L. ssp. borealis (Michx.) Roy L. Taylor & MacBryde [232]
4) Mentha arvensis L. var. canadensis (L.) Kuntze [224]
5) Mentha arvensis L. var. lanata Piper [231]
6) Mentha canadensis L. [237]
7) Mentha crispa L. [607]
8) Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. var. mollissima (Borkh.) Rouy [189]
9) Mentha pulegium L. [2389]
10) Mentha sylvestris L. [266]

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