Catnip

Featuring several detours into catmint, which is almost, but not quite, the same thing.

Article on catnip from my defunct blog: https://encyclopaediafelidae.com/crazy-for-catnip/

Music by James Milor from Pixabay

Information provided by:

Catnip: Its raison d’être by T. Eisner (1964)
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/perennials/catmint-vs-catnip/
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211103125.htm
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/catnip-nepeta-cataria/
https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=e433
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/nepeta-cataria/
Catnip and oestrous behaviour in the cat by G. F. Palen and G. V. Goddard (1966) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-3472(66)80100-8
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/010828075659.htm
Inheritance of the catnip response in domestic cats by N. B. Todd (1962) https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a107121
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-how-does-catnip-work-on-cats/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catnip