Is this Mint or a Weed?

ralitaco 2/9/2020, 7:25 pm

Here is another plant that I found after cleaning out my overgrown, former herb bed. According to PlantNet, this is Cat-Mint. I think I planted Catnip years ago, but don't recall planting any mint. I am thinking this may be a weed but I did not pull it on the chance it is something good.

Again, Thanks in advance

OhioGardener 2/9/2020, 7:34 pm

That looks like Catnip, which is a member of the Mint family. I make sure not to allow it around any of my raised beds since the neighborhood cats love to roll in it. We made a mistake of planting a couple plants of it in the flower bed under the Birch trees, and it now has taken over the entire bed.

ralitaco 2/9/2020, 7:38 pm

Thank you OG. I believe I planted some of that at one point. For some reason I thought catnip grew more like a grass.

countrynaturals 2/9/2020, 8:16 pm

ralitaco wrote:Thank you OG. I believe I planted some of that at one point. For some reason I thought catnip grew more like a grass.

You may be thinking of cat grass (oat grass or wheat grass). I think cat mint and catnip are the same thing, but I could be wrong. You can always tell a mint by its stem -- mint stems are square.

ralitaco 2/9/2020, 10:28 pm

countrynaturals wrote:
You may be thinking of cat grass (oat grass or wheat grass). I think cat mint and catnip are the same thing, but I could be wrong. You can always tell a mint by its stem -- mint stems are square.

I thought cat mint and cat nip might have been the same thing.
I definitely had no idea that mint stems were square - WOW!!!

**sanderson** 2/13/2020, 3:25 pm

Looks like cat nip

**Scorpio Rising** 2/13/2020, 5:42 pm

Agree, and if it’s in the ground it is very invasive in my experience.

ralitaco 2/13/2020, 11:09 pm

Thank you both. It is not in the ground, but I may pull it anyway.

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