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Mentha arvensis, the corn mint, field mint, or wild mint, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It has a circumboreal distribution, being native to the temperate regions of Europe and western and central Asia , east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia , and North America .
Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a hybrid species of mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint. [1] Indigenous to Europe and the Middle East, [ 2 ] the plant is now widely spread and cultivated in many regions of the world. [ 3 ]
Mentha aquatica (water mint; syn. Mentha hirsuta Huds. [ 3 ] ) is a perennial flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae . It grows in moist places and is native to much of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia .
Mentha, also known as mint (from Greek μίνθα míntha, [2] Linear B mi-ta [3]), is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. [4] It is estimated that 13 to 24 species exist, but the exact distinction between species is unclear.
This page alphabetically lists some known plant species occurring in the US state of Pennsylvania.Currently about 2,100 native and 1,300 non-native plant species are known in Pennsylvania. [1]
Mentha. Genera See text Mentheae is the largest tribe of plants in the family Lamiaceae. [1] [2] It includes herbs such as sage, hyssop, mint, bee balm and thyme.
Adults feed on flowers and lay eggs in flower heads. The larvae feed on Lantana camara, Lantana montevidensis, Lantana hispida, Lantana peduncularis, Lantana indica, Lantana involucrata, Lippia alba, Phyla nodiflora, Phyla lanceolata, Caperonia palustris, Mentha and Utricularia species.
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 6645 least concern plant species. [1] 30% of all evaluated plant species are listed as least concern.