ミント (Mint) はシソ科ハッカ属（ミント属、メンタ属）の総称。ほとんどは多年草だが、一年草の種も少しある。ユーラシア大陸原産。 ミントおよび学名・メンタはギリシャ神話に登場するニンフのメンテーに由来する。和名はハッカ（薄荷）だが、この名はミントの1種ニホンハッカを意味することもある。
Mentha (also known as mint, from Greek míntha, Linear B mi-ta) is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae (mint family). The species is not clearly distinct, with 13 to 18 variations estimated. Hybridization between some of the species occur naturally. Many other hybrids, as well as numerous cultivars, are known.
The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North America.
Mints are aromatic, almost exclusively perennial, rarely annual, herbs. They have wide-spreading underground and overground stolons and erect, square,[branched stems.