Wild Mint
Mentha Canadensis. Mint Family.
Leaves.--Opposite; aromatic; oval to lance-shaped; toothed; tapering to both ends. Flowers.--Small; purplish or whitish; in globular clusters in the axils of the leaves. Calyx.--Five-toothed. Corolla.--Four-cleft; the upper lobe broadest and sometimes notched. Stamens.--Four. Pistil.--One, with a two-lobed style. Ovary.-Deeply four-lobed.
In wet places, throughout the Northern States, we find our native wild mint.