Mentha aquatica Water Mint CCC DD N
Expect to find this plant at the sides of slow streams, in ditches, boggy areas and dune slacks. The leaves have a strong smell and if you walk through a wet area where Water Mint grows, the crushed leaves soon send up a delicious minty fragrance.
M. aquatica is abundant in the British Isles except for some parts of the far north of Scotland highlands.
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LHS: Pond near Dunham-on-the-Hill, Cheshire 11th August 06: RHS: Loch Beg, Northern Ireland, 18th August 06
Added on December 3rd 2004, updated January 2nd 2011, updated 1st July 2015