Catnip flowers are typically white. Catmint flowers are lavender. Some people harvest catmint leaves to use as a culinary herb similar to mint.
Over the last couple of days we’ve harvested a lot of one of lavender’s cousins, catnip. Both these plants are in the lamiaceae family (mints are in that family, the members of this family have square stems).
What herb is catnip?
catnip, (Nepeta cataria), also called catmint, herb of the mint family (Lamiaceae), noted for its aromatic leaves, which are particularly exciting to cats.
