Mentha

Accepted species 39 Documented here 11 Family Lamiaceae

Accepted species 39 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Mentha aquatica L. 1,167 documented
Mentha arvensis L. 747 documented
Mentha pulegium L. 716 documented
Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. 554 documented
Mentha canadensis L. 497 documented
Mentha spicata L. 301 documented
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh. 248 documented
Mentha cunninghamii (Benth.) Benth. 34 documented
Mentha cervina L. 28 documented
Mentha grandiflora Benth. 22 documented
Mentha australis R.Br. 3 documented
Mentha diemenica Spreng. 2 below the evidence gate
Mentha laxiflora Benth. 2 below the evidence gate
Mentha × carinthiaca Host 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × dalmatica Tausch 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × dumetorum Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × gayeri Trautm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × gracilis Sole 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × kuemmerlei Trautm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × locyana Borbás 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × piperita L. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × pyramidalis Ten. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × rotundifolia (L.) Huds. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × suavis Guss. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × verticillata L. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × villosa Huds. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × villoso-nervata Opiz 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha × wirtgeniana F.W.Schultz 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha alaica Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha atrolilacina B.J.Conn & D.J.Duval 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha dahurica Fisch. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha darvasica Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha gattefossei Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha japonica (Miq.) Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha micrantha (Fisch. ex Benth.) Heinr.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha pamiroalaica Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha requienii Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha royleana Wall. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentha saturejoides R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.