What is "agastache"

Agastache \Agastache\ n. 1. 1 giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop.

Syn: genus Agastache.

Agastache'' (giant hyssop'') is a genus of aromatic flowering herbaceous perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae, native to eastern Asia (one species) and North America (the rest).

Most species are very upright, 0.5–3 m tall, with stiff, angular stems clothed in toothed-edged, lance shaped leaves ranging from 1–15 cm long and 0.5–11 cm broad depending on the species. Upright spikes of tubular, two-lipped flowers develop at the stem tips in summer. The flowers are usually white, pink, mauve, or purple, with the bracts that back the flowers being of the same or a slightly contrasting color. Leaf tips can be eaten and made into teas.

"Agastache" is Greek for "many spikes".

• Agastache aurantiaca (A.Gray) Lint & Epling – orange hummingbird mint. Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango)
• Agastache breviflora (A.Gray) Epling – Trans-Pecos giant hyssop. Northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora), SW USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)
• Agastache cana (Hook.) Wooton & Standl. – Texas hummingbird mint. (Wild Hyssop, Mosquito Plant, Mexican Hyssop), SW USA (New Mexico, Western Texas)
• Agastache coccinea (Greene) Lint & Epling – Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango)
• Agastache cusickii (Greenm.) A.Heller – Cusick's giant hyssop. NW USA (Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada)
• Agastache eplingiana R.W.Sanders – Mexico (Durango)
• Agastache foeniculum (Pursh) Kuntze – giant or anise hyssop. widespread rom Arctic Canada to Colorado and Kentucky; naturalized in Austria
• Agastache mearnsii Wooton & Standl. – New Mexico, Chihuahua, Sonora
• Agastache mexicana (Kunth) Lint & Epling – Mexican giant hyssop. widespread across much of Mexico
• Agastache micrantha (A.Gray) Wooton & Standl. – Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Chihuahua
• Agastache nepetoides (L.) Kuntze – eastern North America from southern Ontario and southern Quebec south to Oklahoma and Georgia
• Agastache occidentalis (Piper) A.Heller – Washington, Oregon
• Agastache pallida (Lindl.) Cory (syn. A. barberi). Northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora), southwestern USA (Arizona)
• Agastache pallidiflora (A.Heller) Rydb. – Northern Mexico (Chihuahua), Southwestern USA (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, western Texas)
• Agastache palmeri (B.L.Rob.) Standl. – central + northeastern Mexico
• Agastache pringlei (Briq.) Lint & Epling – Northern Mexico (Chihuahua), southwestern USA (New Mexico)
• Agastache parvifolia Eastw. – northern California
• Agastache rugosa (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Kuntze – Korean mint. Southeastern Russia ( Primoriye, Khabarovsk), Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan; naturalized in Laos and Vietnam
• Agastache rupestris (Greene) Standl. – threadleaf giant hyssop or licorice mint. Arizona, New Mexico
• Agastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze – Eastern North America from southern Ontario and South Dakora south to Georgia
• Agastache urticifolia (Benth.) Kuntze – Western North America from British Columbia south to California and Colorado
• Agastache wrightii (Greenm.) Wooton & Standl. – Arizona, New Mexico, Chihuahua, Sonora