Creeping Mint

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Mentha satureoides

Mat-forming rhizomatous herb often producing rising branches at each nodes. Narrow leaves blunt or rounded tip. White or pink mint flowers in clusters of three at the base of the leaves _ flower is a tube fused for most of its length.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Other Common Names
Native Pennyroyal
Distinctive Features

Distinctive mint smell when crushed.
Biology

Perennial. Sandy clays and clay-rich soils.
Native Status
Native
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Mentha
Species
satureoides

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Leaves of native mint species were used by Aboriginal species as flavouring, in some places used in earth ovens to flavour food. They also crushed rhe leaves and inhaled them for colds.

Interesting Facts
Similar Species

A difficult and variable group including M. diemenica.Ã_
Native Status
Native