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Help with an ID please

FireFire Posts: 19,096
in Problem solving
Hi all,
this plant has popped up in a pot in the last week. It looks like I planted intentionally at some point. Its leaves smell - like a salvia (when crushed) not like a mint. It has thick roots like mint, running around the edge of the pot (though not in the middle) - pic A. The leaves taste horrible. No flower buds on it yet. It seems very happily thriving in poor, unconditioned, old soil. The stems nor the leaves are hairy like a nettle, not much slugged. It's probably bearing a flower all summer, if I planted it. Any ideas? A type of verbena?





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  • RubeeRubee Posts: 8,932
    Looks like mint
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    It doesn't taste or smell like mint
  • RubeeRubee Posts: 8,932
    Does it smell could be lemon balm
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    The leaves look a bit too long and narrow for Lemon Balm.. and the points are too 'sharp'. 
    Utah, USA.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've got a couple of verbena bonariensis plugs that look very similar to this. Same square stem.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    No, not verbena bon. or lemon balm. It has short and bushy habit (not tall) and doesn't smell of lemon - smells more like a black current salvia. Horrid to taste - acrid.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Catnip?
    Utah, USA.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Is your tongue numb after eating it?
    Utah, USA.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    Nepeta? Could be! I don't remember ever planting any or seeing any last year, so a bit unlikely....? Does it grow on from little bits of root?

    No numb tongue that I noticed...

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    lamium of sorts?

    Devon.
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