The plant has a creeping root stock from which grow brownish – green to green stem that is ascending or erect, 4-sided, mostly hairless or short-hairy. The plant is found growing in arable land, heaths, damp edges of woods, wet marshes, shores meadows, thickets, and stream and lake margins in the lowland and montane zone, cattle yards, Waste ground, along ditches, fens, moist prairies, sedge meadows, calcareous fens, shrub-carrs, alder thickets and disturbed sites that have adequate moisture provide good habitat and normally prefers moist organic soils. Wild Mint is a rambling aromatic, herbaceous perennial plant that grows about 10–60 cm (3.9–23.6 in) tall and rarely up to 100 cm (39 in) tall.
The essential oil extracted from the leaves also has many uses.
Leaves of this herbal plant have a fresh minty flavor and are used for culinary and medicinal purposes. Its common names include Brook mint, Corn mint, Field mint, Japanese peppermint, Tule mint, Wild mint, European corn mint, common Mint and banana mint. Bailey (eastern Asian plants such as Japanese mint). glabrata Fernald (North American plants such as American Wild Mint) and M. Mentha canadensis, the related species, is also included in Mentha arvensis by some authors as two varieties, M. It has a circum-boreal distribution, being native to the temperate regions of Europe and western and central Asia, east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia, and North America. Mentha arvensis, the corn mint, field mint, or wild mint, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the Mentha genus in the mint family Lamiaceae.
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