Mentha spicata L.

LAMIACEAE

- Mint family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Mentha spicata L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 576 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Mentha spicata

Common names

U.S. name: Spearmint

English name: spearmint

Spanish name: yerbabuena

French name: menthe verte

Italian name: Mentastro verde

German name: Krauseminze

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Mentha cordifolia auct.
= Mentha longifolia auct. non (L.) Huds.
= Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. var. mollissima (Borkh.) Rouy
= Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. var. undulata (Willd.) Fiori
= Mentha spicata L. var. longifolia L.
= Mentha spicata L. var. spicata
= Mentha sylvestris L.
= Mentha viridis L.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Mentha spicata L. var. longifolia L.
2) Mentha spicata L. var. spicata

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 1559 ( AVG: 240.39 / 323.239 )

Gallery:

Mentha spicata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Monte Valerio, nei pressi degli istituti universitari. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Mentha spicata
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Mentha spicata
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

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

Mentha spicata
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 spicata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Mentha spicata
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Mentha spicata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Camerino, Orto Botanico., MC, Marche, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Mentha spicata
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - 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 spicata
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Mentha spicata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico., PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Mentha spicata
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Mentha spicata
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

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

Mentha spicata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Aquileia, ai margini della laguna di Grado, pineta di San Marco. , UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Mentha spicata
Credit: Photo by Alfonso La Rosa

Mentha spicata
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: 149.

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

Mentha spicata
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Mentha spicata L.
Map for Mentha spicata L.
(*) 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 spicata L. var. longifolia L. [278]
2) Mentha spicata L. var. spicata [283]
3) Mentha suaveolens Ehrh. [2566]
4) Mentha viridis L. [413]
5) Mentha x gracilis Sole (pro sp.) [392]
6) Mentha x verticillata L., nom. inq. [403]
7) Mentzelia albicaulis (Hook.) Torr. & A. Gray var. veatchiana (Kellogg) Urb. & Gilg [234]
8) Mentzelia lindleyi Torr. & A. Gray [756]
9) Merceya ligulata (Spruce) Schimp. [262]
10) Merxmuellera stricta (Schrad.) Conert [374]

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