This noxious weed usually grows in extremely cold environments, or at higher elevations where snow tends to accumulate.

Lamiales

Mentha

Lamiaceae

They have wide-spreading underground and overground stolons and erect, square, branched stems. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, from oblong to lanceolate, often downy, and with a serrated margin.

The leaves of the plant characterized by a pleasant sweet minty flavor, whereas the root is bitter and acidic.

Leaf colors range from dark green and gray-green to purple, blue, and sometimes pale yellow.[6] The flowers are white to purple and produced in false whorls called verticillasters.

Very sweet fragrant aroma.

The weed is one of an assassin’s favorite plants, due to the root’s
ability to freeze a creature’s bloodstream, which leads
to a slow and agonizing death.

The fruit is a nutlet, containing one to four seeds.

The Arctic Creeper is toxic to many unwary travelers, as it is quite easy to consume the root’s toxins while enjoying the sweet flavorsome leaves.

Perennial