Mint of the fields

The mint of the fields is a species of Menthe, kind of herbaceous plants of the family of the Lamiacées.

It is a plant with aromatic from 10 to 60 cm, hairy odor, without final sheet with quadrangular stem. Its flowers are verticillate and lilac located at the armpit of the sheets. Oval, pointed and toothed sheets. This hardy perennial flowers from July to September. It pushes in the wet ditches, marshes, meadows.

Use

In medicine, the mint beverage is a stimulating good of the digestive tracts. Antispasmodique, mint was regarded formerly as a panacea thanks to the bactericidal action of menthol.

In kitchen, the sheets are used like Aromate with the uses varied as in salads, with the meats or to scent soups, in particular in the southernmost areas.

Roa-rup: Ayazmã

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