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(First upload on November 3 2015. Last on January 13 2021) [ 日本語 | English ]

Mentha canadensis L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Mentha L. (ハッカ, mint)
M. canadensis L.
Hakka (ハッカ, 薄荷, s.l.), American wild mint
Lifeform: perennial forb
Habitat: on mosit soil, escaped from crop fields
Chromosome number: 2n = 96
Use: oil, menthol as herbal medicine (many cultivars)
Synonyms:

Mentha haplocalyx Briq. var. nipponensis
Mentha haplocalyx Briq.
Mentha sachalinensis (Briq.) Kudo

Mentha arvensis L. var. piperascens Malinv. ex Holmes
Mentha arvensis L. var. formosana Kitam.
Mentha arvensis L. ssp. piperascens (Malinv. ex Holmes) H. Hara
Mentha haplocalyx Briq. var. piperascens (Malinv. ex Holmes) C. Y. Wu et H. W. Li

var. piperascens (Malinv. ex Holmes) H. Hara
Hakka (ハッカ, 薄荷, s.s.), or Nihon-hakka (ニホンハッカ, 日本薄荷), Japanese peppermint
Distribution: China - Korea - Japan, including Hokkaido
Synonyms:

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Mentha canadensis in Hokkaido


var. piperascens

ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5 ST6
[1-3] along a road to go the Toya Lake Experimental Station of Hokkaido University faced to Toya Lake on September 15 2015. [4-6] in Shibetsu wetland, eastern Hokkaido, on Augsut 28 2020. Records: in Experimental Station for Medical Plant Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, on November 16 2020.

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