[1] It is known by the common names of gingermint, redmint and Scotchmint in Europe,[2] and as Scotch spearmint in North America.

Gingermint is a naturally occurring hybrid indigenous throughout the overlapping native regions of cornmint and spearmint in Europe and Asia.

[3] From Wisconsin it spread as a crop throughout the US Midwest and later to the Pacific Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, where the majority of global Scotch spearmint production is now concentrated.

In 1990 it was brought from the Pacific Northwest to southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada, which has become the second largest production region supplying about 25% of the North American market.

[4] As a sterile hybrid gingermint does not set seed; it is instead propagated by plant cuttings from the runners of healthy mints.