Native Mint

A Prolific, Fast-growing Ground cover, River Mint Is A Case Of Plant, Add Water — Plenty And Often — And Stand Well Back

- Kerry Boyne

River mint is a rambling native herb found in moist forests and waterways across southeast Australia. A summer grower, it especially thrives after floods, often on riverbanks or in bogs.

Also known as wild mint — in fact it’s one of a half-dozen native mints — it’s an aromatic if slightly subtler relative of more familiar exotic herbs like spearmint and peppermint and can be used in the same way.

Indigenous people, who knew it as