How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Spearmint

Mentha viridis. Mint Family.

Leaves.--Opposite; aromatic; unequally toothed; narrowly oblong; sessile, or nearly so. Flowers.--Small; purple or whitish; in narrow, leafless, densely crowded spikes; otherwise as in above.

In wet places, in all cultivated districts, we find the spearmint, this plant being an escape from gardens.

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