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Mentha arvensis (field mint; wild mint)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Mentha arvensis (field mint (पुदीना/ Pudina,"Podina" in Hindi), (Urdu: پودینہ) wild mint, or corn mint) is a species of mint with a circumboreal distribution. It is native to the temperate regions of Europe and western and central Asia, east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia, and North America.
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Infraspecies

Mentha arvensis f. typica
Mentha arvensis var. praecox
Mentha arvensis var. typica

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Screening - Summer [3]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [3]  Porous
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue
Flower Color [3]  White
Foliage Color [3]  Green
Fruit Color [3]  Brown
Bloom Period [3]  Spring
Drought Tolerance [3]  Low
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  None
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  3 months 10 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Fall
Growth Form [3]  Single Stem
Growth Period [3]  Spring
Growth Rate [3]  Moderate
Hazards [4]  Although no records of toxicity have been seen for this species, large quantities of some members of this genus, especially when taken in the form of the extracted essential oil, can cause abortions so some caution is advised.
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Bees
Propagation [3]  Bare Root
Regrowth Rate [3]  Slow
Root Depth [3]  6 inches (15 cm)
Scent [4]  The whole plant has a very strong, almost oppressive, smell of mint;
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [3]  Medium
Shape/Orientation [3]  Erect
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [4]  The plant is used as an insect repellent; Rats and mice intensely dislike the smell of mint. The plant was therefore used in homes as a strewing herb and has also been spread in granaries to keep the rodents off the grain; The leaves also repel various insects; An essential oil is obtained from the plant; The yield from the leaves is about 0.8%; The sub-species M. arvensis piperascens produces the best oil, which can be used as a substitute for, or adulterant of, peppermint oil; Yields of up to 1.6% have been obtained from this sub-species;
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  None
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  18 inches (0.45 m)
Width [4]  39 inches (1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [5]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [5]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [5]  Damp
Water Use [3]  Moderate
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Parasitized by 
Botryosporium pulchrum[10]
Golovinomyces biocellatus[10]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Microtus townsendii, John E. Cornely and B. J. Verts, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 325, pp. 1-9 (1988)
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 11Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0