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Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.

Common Name: APPLE MINT, PINEAPPLE MINT
Coefficient of Conservatism: *
Coefficient of Wetness: 0
Wetness Index: FAC
Physiognomy: Ad P-Forb

A European species, sometimes cultivated and rarely escaped to disturbed ground and along roadsides. First collected in 1899 in Kent Co.

The leaves are quite rugose. Long known as Mentha rotundifolia (L.) Huds., a name that applies to the diploid hybrid M. longifolia × M. suaveolens.

R. W. Smith

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Counties
Berrien
Kalamazoo
Kent
Lenawee
Macomb
Newaygo
Wayne

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 17, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/1569