Horse Mint, dugolisna metvica
Mentha longifolia
43.6097, 17.6004
Field Notes
Description:
It is a very variable herbaceous perennial plant with a peppermint-scented aroma. Like many mints, it has a creeping rhizome, with erect to creeping stems 40–120 cm tall. The leaves are oblong-elliptical to lanceolate, 5–10 cm long and 1.5–3 cm broad, thinly to densely tomentose, green to greyish-green above and white below. The flowers are 3–5 mm long, lilac, purplish, or white, produced in dense clusters on tall, branched, tapering spikes; flowering in mid to late summer. It spreads via rhizomes to form clonal colonies
Habitat:
flooded meadow, by the creek
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