What is Corsican Mint?
Corsican mint is an aromatic groundcover in the mint family native to the Mediterranean. In addition to being used in gardens, Corsican mint is also utilized in cooking, perhaps most famously as the flavoring in creme de menthe. This plant also going by the more formal name of Mentha requienii. Many garden stores carry Corsican mint for people who wish to grow it, and it can also be ordered through garden suppliers; sometimes seeds and divides can also be found for trade on gardening forums. While you may associate “mint” with large, leafy, upright plants, Corsican mint is in fact quite diminutive, and it hugs the ground, growing out rather than up. The leaves are extremely small, around half the size of a pinky nail, and they are bright green and quite aromatic. In temperate climates, Corsican mint is an evergreen, while in cooler environments, it will die back in the winter, but return in the spring. In the summer, Corsican mint bursts into flower, with tiny blue-purple flowers. One
