Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Lamiales > Family Lamiaceae > Genus Mentha

Mentha spicata L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mentha*	L.	accepted genus name
*Audibertia*	Benth.	heterotypic synonym
*Menthella*	Pérard	heterotypic synonym
*Minthe*	St.-Lag.	heterotypic synonym
*Preslia*	Opiz	heterotypic synonym
*Pulegium*	Mill.	heterotypic synonym

Children

Mentha spicata L. subsp. spicata
Mentha spicata subsp. condensata (Briq.) Greuter & Burdet

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Aragonese: herbe bone; hierba buena; yerba buena; yerba-buena sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Catalan: menta; menta comuna; menta de fer sopa; menta de la sopa/menta de les sopes; menta de les faves; menta de les sopes; menta primperana sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Dutch: Aarmunt sources: Dutch Species Register

English: Spearmint sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))

English-United States: Spear Mint; Spearmint sources: Charles Hussey

Euskera: bataná; mendabeltz sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Galician: amenta gallega; Cartlainn gharraí; cicimbre; herba de Nostra Señora; hortelá; hortelan; menta; menta castellana; ziciembre; zizimbre sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

High Aragonese: hierba buena sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Irish: Cartlainn gharraí sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))

Majorcan: herba sana; menta borda sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Norwegian Bokmål: grønnmynte

Norwegian Nynorsk: grønmynte

Portuguese: hortelâ; hortelâa; hortelâa verde; mentastro; ortelâa das cozinhas sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: batán; hierba buena común; hierba romana; mastranzo menor; menta griega; menta hortense; menta verde; sándalo; sándalo de jardín; yerba buena; yerba buena común; yerba buena de los huertos; yerba buena española; yerba de huerto; yerba del tiñoso; yerba olorosa; yerbabuena sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Swedish: grönmynta

Valencian: herba sana vera; terongina sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).