Meehania cordata
# Meehania cordata

Meehania cordata, also known as Meehan's mint or creeping mint, is a perennial plant of the genus Meehania, within the family Lamiaceae found in moist shady banks west of Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee, and North Carolina around the month of June.

## Description

Meehania, which was named by Nathaniel Lord Britton for the late Thomas Meehan, Philadelphian botanist, is a dicot perennial plant with calyx rather obliquely 5-toothed, 15 nerved. Corolla ample, expanded at the throat; the upper lip flattish or concave, 2-lobed, the lower 3-cleft, the middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending, the lower pair shorter; anther-cells parallel. Low stoloniferous herb, with a pale purplish flowers.

Meehania cordata, which is one of seven species of the genus Meehania and named by the English botanist Thomas Nuttall, are low, with slender runners, hairy; leaves broadly heart-shaped, crenate, petioled, the floral shorter than the calyx; whorls few-flowered, at the summit of short ascending stems; corolla hairy inside, 2–3.5 cm. long; stamens shorter than the upper lip. .

## Distribution

It is found mostly in eastern North America. In the states of

* Illinois
* Kentucky
* North Carolina
* Ohio
* Pennsylvania
* Tennessee
* Virginia
* West Virginia

## Threatened and endangered information

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state.

* Pennsylvania: heart-leafed meehania: Endangered
* Tennessee: heartleaf meehania: Threatened
