Flowering Season: July to October. Habitat: River banks, pool edges, wet meadows, wet woodland and marshes. Distribution: Common throughout most of the UK.
| Description: An aromatic plant, growing to 80 cm in height and possessing the characteristic minty smell. Stem almost hairless, or weakly hairy. The leaves are short-stalked, oval and toothed. Flowers are stalked, either at the end of a stem or in the axils of the uppermost leaves, in fairly dense clusters. Calyx tube-shaped and five-lobed. Corolla 5-7 mm long with a ring of hairs in the tube and four even corolla lobes. There are four stamens, extending outside the corolla. Flowering Season: July to October. Habitat: River banks, pool edges, wet meadows, wet woodland and marshes. Distribution: Common throughout most of the UK. |
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