help | home

Herbarium specimen: Mentha aquatica

Taxon:Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
named by L D Pitt 8/12/1956
Filed in taxon folder:Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Collected by:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:13/8/1930
Locality:Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Shapwick Moor, ST44, Shapwick Peat Moor, abundant in enclosures of rough marshy ground SW of the station.
ex herb:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Mentha aquatica herbarium specimen from Shapwick Moor, VC6 North Somerset in 1930 by Mr Harold Stuart Thompson.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:This is the dominant mint there.

Inferred details are marked.

Show in Google Earth

This sheet was documented by volunteers from the herbarium@home project.

Log-in to edit this specimen or crop examples of handwriting.

Documented by hallucigenia on 3rd March 2010.

herbaria@home > specimen search