Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Mentha pulegium L.


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

Taxon Page:

Name: Mentha pulegium L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 577 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Pennyroyal
en English name: European pennyroyal
English name: pennyroyal
Spanish name: poleo
French name: pouliot
Italian name: Menta poleggio
German name: Poleiminze

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

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TAXONOMY

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


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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Beppe Di Gregorio

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Beppe Di Gregorio

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Beppe Di Gregorio

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
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 pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Beppe Di Gregorio

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, HI, MD, NJ, OR, PA, WA), CAN (BC)

Distributional map for Mentha pulegium L.
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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 requienii Benth. [1080]
2) Mentha rotundifolia auct. non (L.) Huds. [259]
3) Mentha sativa L. [204]
4) Mentha spicata L. var. longifolia L. [215]
5) Mentha suaveolens Ehrh. [2510]
6) Mentha x gentilis L. var. cardiaca (J. Gerard ex Baker) B. Boivin (pro nm.) [206]
7) Mentha x piperita L. (pro sp.) [3533]
8) Mentzelia albicaulis (Hook.) Torr. & A. Gray [479]
9) Mentzelia californica H.J. Thomp. & Roberts [140]
10) Mentzelia integra (M.E. Jones) Tidestr. [172]

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