| Mentha aquatica L., water mint is a herbaceous rhizomatous perennial plant, simple or branched, strongly aromatic perennial herb, 25-50 (-80) cm x 15-3.5 mm or more, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, truncate at base, ± hairy on both sides, serrate, petiolate. Inflorescences with 2-3 dense, globular terminal clusters, c. 20 mm broad, with inconspicuous bract, sometimes 1-3 distant verticils below in the axils of leaf-like bracts. Flowers c. 5 mm in diam. Calyx hairy 3-4 mm long, tubular with 5 unequal, short, acute teeth, pedicels hairy. Corolla white or liIac-blue, tube hairy within. Stamens exserted. Nullets narrowly ovoid, finely wrinkled. 1.0 x 1.5 mm. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Jul-Sep, Vern: Mentha, Phytochoria: S.Cosm, The native range of this species is Africa, Europe to Central Siberia and W. Asia. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:450192-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/450192-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000240328, https://www.gbif.org/species/2927208, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/117464/mentha-aquatica-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/736.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_mentheaqua.php, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentha_aquatica, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/MENAQU/, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/mentha/aquatica/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Benghazi by Pampanini and Keith | Reported from Gharian, Ain Turkia wadi el Arabaa (Gebel Nafousa) by Pampanini and Keith | Ain Mara 1978 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Lamiaceae Vol. (118) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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