Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Lamiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.

• Description

  Species Description - Stout and erect, 4–10 dm, with a sickly-sweet odor; stem sparsely hairy to densely white-tomentose; lvs sessile or nearly so, broad-based and often clasping, obtuse or rounded above, 2–5 × 1–4 cm, 1–2 times as long as wide, crenate-serrate, strongly rugose-reticulate, strongly villous-tomentose beneath, less so above; verticils crowded into elongate terminal spikes (sometimes interrupted below) 3–15 × 0.5–1 cm; cal 1–2 mm, short-hairy throughout; 2n=24. Native of s. Europe, escaped into waste places and along roadsides throughout s. U.S. and n. occasionally to Me. and O.

• Common Names

  apple-mint