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Low spreading perennial herb is a butterfly attractant and fragrant groundcover. The lilac colored flowers are in tightly-packed whorls down the stem, like pin-cushions. Crushed leaves have a very strong fragrance similar to spearmint. Traditionally used as an antispasmodic, carminative, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, aromatic, and stomachic. Used as a cooking herb by the Greeks and Romans, who often flavored their wine with pennyroyal. A large number of the recipes in the Roman cookbook of Apicius use pennyroyal, along with such herbs as lovage, oregano and coriander. Leaves have been used as an insect repellent against fleas and other pests.
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