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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Balms, Mints, and Thymes
  8. Mints

genus

Mints

Mentha

Traits
Includes
1 native 7 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Spearmint introduced
  • Watermint introduced
  • Canada Mint native
  • Horse Mint introduced
  • Corn Mint introduced
  • Pennyroyal introduced
  • Apple Mint introduced
  • Peppermint introduced
  • Native River Mint
  • Apple Mint
  • Apple Mint introduced
  • Slender Mint
  • Corsican Mint introduced
  • Sweet Mint
  • Mentha × verticillata

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native mints All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Canada Mint Mentha canadensis caterpillars 13 hosts 2 food 5 flowers 115

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