Slender mint
Mentha diemenica, Fam. Lamiaceae
Mat forming herb, rhizomatous and often producing ascending to prostrate branches, which are sometimes densely covered with short recurved simple hairs.
| Weed Category: | |
| Weed: | No |
| Form or habit: | Herb |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Leaf: | Ovate, often angular ovate, rarely narrowly ovate or elliptic, 0.6-2 x 0.4-1.2cm, obtuse or rounded apex, margins entire or sometimes with distant shallow teeth, petiole 0-3mm long. |
| Flower conspicuous: | Conspicuous |
| Flower colour: |
Mauve, Purple, Lilac, Violet |
| Flower description: | Purple, often pale (mauve, violet or lilac) flowers with a densely hairy calyx, in clusters of three to eight in the axils of leaf pairs. |
| Fruit conspicuous: | Conspicuous |
| Fruit colour: |
Brown |
| Fruit: | |
| Fruit description: | Small, brown nutlets. |
| Habitat: | Grassland, woodland. |
| Distribution | Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capitol Territory, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia. |
| Food source for: | |
| Toxicity: | No toxicity known |
| Origin: | Australia. |
| Notes: | |
| Information sources: | Atlas of Living Australia (2022) Mentha diemenica Spreng., PlantNET (2022) Mentha diemenica Spreng. FloraOnline. |
