{"id":1398,"date":"2006-07-17T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:42:45","slug":"mountain-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"Mountain mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/IMG_0447.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This herb is something of a mystery. I purchased it a few years ago at a local native plant nursery because I had read that it was a good plant to attract pollinators. It was labeled only as *mountain mint* and I&#8217;ve not been able to figure out today what variety I have. It looks like it might be short-toothed mountain mint, but I&#8217;m not very sure of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">It&#8217;s a nondescript plant and doesn&#8217;t *do* much more than you see in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/IMG_0451.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/IMG_0451-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> these pics &#8211; no big showy flowers here. Just these tiny white ones that seem mostly to attract equally tiny flying insects that I can&#8217;t identify. It&#8217;s growing among the swamp milkweed, joe pye weed, and bee balm so it tends to disappear among its more showy neighbors. I like the cool green color of the foliage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I found quite a few references to the medicinal properties of this plant and <a href=\"http:\/\/altnature.com\/gallery\/wild_mint.htm\">one reference<\/a> stated that it was believed by Native Americans to have strong medicine capable of *reviving the dead*.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This herb is something of a mystery. I purchased it a few years ago at a local native plant nursery because I had read that it was a good plant to attract pollinators. It was labeled only as *mountain mint* and I&#8217;ve not been able to figure out today what variety I have. It looks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mountain mint<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}