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Round-leaved Mint, Mentha suaveolens, Mismín cumhra
Photographs: Co.Cork

Round-leaved Mint
Mentha suaveolens
Mismín cumhra
Family: Lamiaceae

Flowering time: August-September. Perennial. Introduced.

Narrow, branched spikes of pale whitish-mauve flowers. Stalk-less leaves are round to ovate, blunt-toothed and wrinkled. An aromatic, hairy plant, spreading by creeping stems above and below ground. Height to 80 cm

Occasional on damp ground in ditches and on roadsides and river-banks.

Similar: Apple Mint, Mentha x villosa

Round-leaved Mint, Mentha suaveolens, Mismín cumhra

Round-leaved Mint, Mentha suaveolens, Mismín cumhra
Round-leaved Mint, Mentha suaveolens, Mismín cumhra

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