Corn Mint - Mentha arvensis

Short to medium, hairy plant with a rather sickly sweet scent. Stems ascending to erect. Flowers purplish or pinkish, occasionally white, 3 to 4 mm long in distant, dense whorls, forming spikes that are leafy at the apex.

Other mints, including hybrids and garden varieties

Either obtain confirmation from a County Recorder before submitting a record, or submit detailed images showing key features.  We recommend that you take and retain a specimen; the County Recorder may wish to see this for confirmation. (RPR)

Damp habitats, open woodland, around the edges of wet areas.

July to September.

Perennial.

Found throughout Britain but scarcer in the north.

In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi & Evans, 1988) it was found in 70 of the 617 tetrads, and in 30 tetrads in the Flora of Rutland (Messenger, 1971).

It is on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall & Woodward, 2022) as Local; included because of its threat level; usually only small numbers of plants found, and threatened in woodland rides by shading