Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Mentha satureioides
Common name
Creeping Mint, Native Pennyroyal
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassland, and moist sites. Mainly Sydney area. Widespread elsewhere but not common.
Notes
Perennial herb, mat-forming, rhizomatous. Flowering branches sometimes becoming erect. Stems 4-angled, hairless or covered with short spreading hairs. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.5–3.5 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, surfaces somewhat hairless, tips blunt or rounded; margins entire. Flowers white, pink, or mauve, 3–5 mm long, tubular, vaguely 2-lipped, with 4 lobes about 1–2 mm long, in 3-flowered clusters at the base of each of a pair of leaves. Flowers throughout the year.
Intergrades with Mentha diemenica.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Mentha~satureioides (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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