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Horse Mint, dugolisna metvica

Mentha longifolia

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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Jopy
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Spotted on Aug 2, 2013
Submitted on Oct 7, 2013

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