Penny-royal
Mentha pulegium L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Lamiaceae
Also called Pennyroyal
Formerly Calamintha fenzlii, Melissa pulegium, Mentha albarracinensis, Mentha aucheri, and 23 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
- Macaronesia, Europe, Medit. to N. Iran and N. EthiopiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 41 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; Wikipedia 40–40 cm
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- 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)
- German
- Poleiminze, Polei-Minze
- Turkish
- Yarpuz
- Asturian
- menta polexu
- Catalan
- Poliol
- Spanish
- Menta poleo
- Finnish
- puolanminttu
- French
- menthe pouliot, Menthe pouliot
- Dutch
- polei
- Polish
- Mięta polej
- Portuguese
- Poejo
- Russian
- Мята блошница, Мята болотная
- Swedish
- Polejmynta
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 pulegium (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.