      
Taxon: Mentha pulegium L.
Genus: Mentha section: Pulegium
Family: Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae) subfamily: Nepetoideae tribe: Mentheae.
Nomen number: 24079
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:577. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-Sep-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 27-Jan-2012
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR).
Accessions:
12 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- European pennyroyal (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- pennyroyal (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- menthe pouliot (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- pouliot (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Poleiminze (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- pulegio (Source: Mansf Ency
) – Italian
- poejo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- hortelã-miúda (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- menta-miúda (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- poejo-das-hortas (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- poejo-real (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- mjata blošnica (Source: Mansf Ency
) – Transliterated Russian
- poleo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- polejmynta (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
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Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran [n.]; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.w.]; Turkmenistan
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Ireland; United Kingdom
Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia
New Zealand: New Zealand
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: United Kingdom
- NORTHERN AMERICA
United States
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil: Brazil [s.]
Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay
Cultivated:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Caucasus: Georgia
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India
Malesia: Indonesia - Java
- EUROPE
Europe [s.]
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Canada
Mexico
United States
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: Cuba
Brazil: Brazil
Southern South America: Chile
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2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
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1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
- Castroviejo, S. et al., eds.
1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares.
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
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1999–. Flore pratique du Maroc.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Forzza, R. C. et al., coord.
Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
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1984–. Med-Checklist.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
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2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
- Hansen, A. & P. Sunding.
1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
- Harley, R. M. & T. Reynolds, eds.
1992. Advances in labiate science.
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
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1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
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1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
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2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
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1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
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1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
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1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
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1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
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1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
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Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
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1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
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1963–. Flora iranica.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
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1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
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2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
- Tucker, A. O. & R. F. C. Naczi.
2007. Mentha: an overview of its classification and relationships.
In: Lawrence, B. M., ed., Mint: the genus Mentha.
25–26.
- Tucker, A. O. et al.
1980. The Linnaean types of Mentha (Lamiaceae).
Taxon
29:237.
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1964–1980. Flora europaea.
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2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
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- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan.
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Synonyms:
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Images:
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?24079 (24 May 2013)
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