WILD MINT (Mentha arvensis)
A wetland mint that produces clusters of tiny, light pink flowers in the leaf axils. This is the best mint you’ll ever smell or taste! It makes wonderful tea and is great added to chocolate cake, roasted dandelion coffee, cake icing, etc.
Grows with bugleweed, common skullcap, marsh hedgenettle, flat-topped goldenrod, panicled aster, Sartwell’s sedge and woolly sedge.
Flower Colour: pink
Life Cycle: perennial
Sun Exposure: full sun – part shade
Bloom Period: July – August
Height: 1 – 3 ft
Soil: moist to wet