Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium
Yarpuz
Perennial herb with pungent odour. Stems 10-40 cm, procumbent to erect. Leaves 8-30 x 4-12 mm, narrowly elliptic with attenuate base to suborbicular, shortly petiolate, margin obscurely toothed. Verticillasters subtended by leaflike bracts. Calyx 2.5-3 mm, tubular, weakly 2-lipped, throat hairy within. Corolla tube gibbous beneath, lilac. 2n = 20. Fl. 6-9. Damp places drying up in summer, s.l.-1300 m.
W. & C. Europe, Mediterranean area, east to Iran. Very variable in habit, leaf shape and hairiness.
