Mentha arvensis

Field Mint

Opposite Leaves
Mainprize Regional Park
14-Aug-1998

Arvensis:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this species.  

flowers in axillary clusters, not terminal spikes

 

Mentha: Answers to key questions from Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus.

leaves crenate to serrate, NOT palmately lobed

inflorescences axillary

flowers in axillary clusters; NOT solitary, NOT in axillary racemes

flowers pedicellate

flowers blue or lavender

calyx indistinctly 2-lipped or regular

calyx WITHOUT projection on upper side

calyx WITHOUT hooks at tips of lobes

corolla nearly regular (FOA), 4- or 5- lobed; hardly, if at all, 2-lipped

4 anther-bearing stamens

stamens equal in length

 

Labiatae: Answers to key questions from Budd's Flora leading to this family.

herbs

plants green or with some chlorophyll

plants NOT aquatic

stems square

leaves NOT bearing bladders

leaves opposite

flowers NOT in heads or spikes

flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell

corolla irregular

ovary superior

fruit with 4 nutlets