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Water Mint – Mentha Aquatica

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Aquatic Mint for your garden pond or water feature.

£2.50

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Aquatic Mint

Water Mint (Mentha aquatica) is a perennial flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It grows in moist places and is native to much of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia.
Water mint is a herbaceous rhizomatous perennial plant growing to 90 centimetres (35 in) tall. The stems are square in cross section, green or purple, and variably hairy to almost hairless. The rhizomes are wide-spreading, fleshy, and bear fibrous roots. The leaves are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 6 centimetres (0.79 to 2.36 in) long and 1 to 4 centimetres (0.39 to 1.57 in) broad, green (sometimes purplish), opposite, toothed, and vary from hairy to nearly hairless. The flowers of the watermint are tiny, densely crowded, purple, tubular, pinkish to lilac in colour and form a terminal hemispherical inflorescence; flowering is from mid to late summer.

This plant is sold as bare root stems (1 stem) as per the quantity selected. It will require planting in aquatic compost on arrival to be placed in marginal areas only.

Weight 0.1 kg
Quantity

1, 10, 20