Water mint
Mentha aquatica L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 89 cm
- wide
- 75 cm
Lamiaceae
Also called Water Mint
Formerly Marrubium aquaticum, Mentha acuta, Mentha acutata, Mentha adspersa, and 69 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Africa, Europe to C. Siberia and W. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 89 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- menta, sándalo, poleos
- German
- Wasserminze, Bachminze, Wasser-Minze
- Chinese
- 水薄荷
- Simplified Chinese
- 水薄荷
- Low Saxon
- Aolkruud, Waotermunt
- Arabic
- نعناع مائي
- Azerbaijani
- İngilis nanəsi, İstiot nanə, Mentha piperita
- Catalan
- Herba d'aigua, Herba sana borda, Herba sana d'aigua
- Czech
- máta vodní
- Welsh
- Mintys y dŵr
- Danish
- Vand-Mynte
- Estonian
- Vesimünt
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Mentha aquatica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.