Corn mint
ಪುದೀನपोदीनापुदिना
Mentha arvensis L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 36 cm
- wide
- —
Lamiaceae
Also called Field mint, Wild mint
Formerly Mentha agrestis, Mentha agrestris, Mentha albae-carolinae, Mentha alberti, and 116 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
- Europe to Kamchatka and NepalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cm to 61 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- menta, hierbabuena, hierba buena
- Hindi
- पोदीना, पुदीना
- Chinese
- 野薄荷, 薄荷, 土薄荷
- Simplified Chinese
- 野薄荷
- Italian
- Mentastro, Menta dei campi, Menta selvatica
- German
- Kornminze, Acker-Minze, Ackerminze
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 野薄荷
- Arabic
- نعناع حقلي
- Assamese
- পদিনা
- Azerbaijani
- Çəmən yarpızı
- Czech
- máta rolní
- Kashubian
- Ùrażewé zelé
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Mentha arvensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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