Mentha arvensisL.

corn mint

WFO wfo-0000240349 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Mentha arvensis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. a Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 203571161
Mentha arvensis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. b Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166764124
Mentha arvensis, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. c Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172144215
Mentha arvensis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. d Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159192041
Mentha arvensis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. e Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163844220
Mentha arvensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. f Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153756550
Mentha arvensis, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152672141
Mentha arvensis, photographed by evgeniq_benihanov
fig. h evgeniq_benihanov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153437338

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Flowering n = 639 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 639 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 383 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calamintha arvensis (L.) Garsault
  • Mentha acutifolia var. nummularia (Schreb.) Boenn.
  • Mentha agrestis Hegetschw.
  • Mentha agrestis Sole
  • Mentha agrestis var. subrotunda Schur ex Heinr.Braun
  • Mentha agrestris Sole
  • Mentha albae-carolinae Heinr.Braun
  • Mentha alberti Sennen
  • Mentha allionii Boreau
  • Mentha angustifolia Schreb.
  • Mentha anomala Hérib.
  • Mentha approximata (Wirtg.) Strail
  • Mentha arenaria Topitz
  • Mentha arguta Opiz
  • Mentha argutissima Borbás & Heinr.Braun
  • Mentha argutissima var. recedens Heinr.Braun
  • Mentha argutissima var. subpilosa Topitz
  • Mentha arvensihirsuta Wirtg.
  • Mentha arvensihirsuta f. calcarea Malinv.
  • Mentha arvensiplicata Rchb.
  • Mentha arvensis f. adrophylloides Topitz
  • Mentha arvensis f. albensis Topitz
  • Mentha arvensis f. albiflora J.Fraser
  • Mentha arvensis f. alverniensis Topitz

and 359 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.