Re: A strange member of the mint family?
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  • Subject: Re: A strange member of the mint family?
  • From: J* S* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:55:57 -0700
Cathy, I googled "square-stem weed" and came up with a lot of picture-identification sites. You might want to take a look. On the plus side <I guess> I rediscovered horehound, a weed of my youth. 

“Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?” 

On Oct 13, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Catharine Carpenter wrote:

Need some help. A friend has a plant taking over her garden. It is obviously a member of the mint family (square stem). My first guess was perilla/shiso, but unlike most mints, I could detect no fragrance when I crushed the leaves, and there was no fragrance of any sort I could detect, nor was there any taste on chewing a small piece of leaf. Coloration was green, with maybe a hint of purple on the back of the leaf, with a fair amount of serration on the edges. Any ideas??
Cathy, west central IL, z5b

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