title: Meehania cordata
text: # 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
  