Spearmint
పుదీనా ఆకుপুদিনা,
Mentha spicata L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 56 cm
- wide
- 86 cm
Lamiaceae
Also called Spear mint
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
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 ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 51 cm to 61 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 66 cm to 1.1 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; NC State Extension 1–2 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS purple; NC State Extension pink, purple, white
- Coldest it survives
- -27.2 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -20 °C; NC State Extension -34.4 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- hierbabuena arodi, hierbabuena lisa, Hierbabuena
- root
- MENSPI, alfabieso, aksmynta
- Catalan
- Menta, Menta verda
- French
- Menthe verte, Menthe en épi, Menthe crépue
- German
- Grüne Minze, Ähren-Minze, Ährige Minze
- Czech
- máta klasnatá
- Portuguese
- hortelã-verde, hortelã-comum, hortelã-das-cozinhas
- Danish
- Grøn mynte, Grøn Mynte
- Russian
- Мята колосистая, Мята имбирная., Мята кучерявая
- Norwegian Bokmål
- grønnmynte
- Finnish
- viherminttu, kähäräminttu
- Lithuanian
- Garbiniuotoji mėta, Šaltmėtė
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Mentha spicata (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.