OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Agastache nepetoides   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agastache nepetoides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Agastache nepetoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-07-002:

Agastache nepetoides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Agastache nepetoides

 

COMMON NAME:
Yellow Giant-hyssop


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image of Agastache nepetoides, Yellow Giant-hyssop

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_agne2_001_lvd

        

image of Agastache nepetoides, Yellow Giant-hyssop

Jeff Ausmus    jma_a_nepetoides2

August    Monroe County    MI

In cultivation

image of Agastache nepetoides, Yellow Giant-hyssop

Jeff Ausmus    jma_aganep2

August    Monroe County    MI

In cultivation

image of Agastache nepetoides, Yellow Giant-hyssop

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_agastache_nepetoides

August        

Bracts in the flower spike are green (vs. pinkish in A. scrophulariifolia), per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).

image of Agastache nepetoides, Yellow Giant-hyssop

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_agastache_nepetoides2

August        

Flowers yellowish-green with stamens that extend outside the corolla, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Agastache nepetoides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agastache nepetoides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agastache nepetoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-07-002:
Agastache nepetoides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agastache nepetoides

 

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3600

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: woodlands and forests, generally over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow to yellowish-white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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