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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.

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