Agastache

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Overview

Herbs tall perennials. Leaves petiolate, margin dentate. Verticillasters many flowered, in terminal spikes. Calyx tubular-obconical, straight, 15-veined, not hairy annulate inside, throat oblique. Corolla tube straight, gradually dilated to throat, as long as to slightly longer than calyx, not hairy annulate inside, 2-lipped; upper lip straight, 2-lobed; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe widest, spreading, base not clawed, margin undulate, lateral lobes straight. Stamens 4, fertile, much exserted, posterior 2 longer and inclined forward, anterior 2 erect-ascending; anther cells 2, initially almost parallel, later ± divergent. Style subequally 2-cleft. Nutlets smooth, apex hairy.

Nine species: eight in North America and one in E Asia.^[1]

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Taxonomy

The Genus Agastache is further organized into finer groupings including:

• Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 175 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Agastache: A. 'After Eight' · A. 'Ankum Summer' · A. 'Apricot Sprite' (Apricot Sprite Mexican Hyssop) · A. 'Apricot Sunrise' (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. 'Ava' (Hybrid Anise Hyssop) · A. 'Big Bazooka' (Anise Hyssop) · A. 'Black Adder' (Black Adder Mexican Hyssop) · A. 'Blue Fortune' (Blue Fortune Mexican Hyssop) · A. 'Bridal Veil' · A. 'Color Spires Orchid' · A. 'Color Spires Pink' · A. 'Color Spires Steel Blue' · A. 'Cotton Candy' · A. 'Desert Sunrise' (Hybrid Hummingbird Mint) · A. 'Firebird' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. 'Fragrant Delight' · A. 'Globetrotter' (Globetrotter Mexican Hyssop) · A. 'Glowing Embers' · A. 'Hazy Days' · A. 'Heather Queen' · A. 'Heatwave' · A. 'Honey Bee Blue' (Hybrid Anise Hyssop) · A. 'Honey Bee White' (Hybrid Anise Hyssop) · A. 'Hot To Trot' · A. 'Kiegabi' · A. 'Kiegador' · A. 'Kiegapur' · A. 'Linda' · A. 'Millennium Proof' · A. 'New Blue' · A. 'Orange Flare' · A. 'Painted Lady' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. 'Phoenix' · A. 'Pink Beauty' · A. 'Pink Panther' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. 'Pink Pearl' · A. 'Pink Perfume' · A. 'Pink Pop' · A. 'Purple Candle' · A. 'Purple Haze' · A. 'Raspberry Summer' · A. 'Red Fortune' (Mexican Hyssop) · A. 'Serpentine' · A. 'Spicy' · A. 'Summer Breeze' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. 'Summer Fiesta' · A. 'Summer Glow' · A. 'Summer Love' · A. 'Summer Sky' · A. 'Tangerine Dreams' (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. 'Tutti-frutti' · A. Acapulco Bicolor Salmon Rose = 'Kiegabi' · A. Acapulco Orange = 'Kiegador' · A. Acapulco Purple = 'Kiegapur' · A. aff. mexicana · A. anethiodora · A. anisata · A. anisatum · A. astromontana 'Pink Pop' (New Mexico Hummingbird Mint) · A. aurantiaca (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. aurantiaca 'Apricot Sprite' (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. aurantiaca 'Apricot Sunrise' (Apricot Sunrise Hyssop) · A. aurantiaca 'Coronado' (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. aurantiaca 'Just Peachy' (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. aurantiaca 'Navajo Sunset' (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. aurantiaca 'Shades of Orange' (Jewel of the Sierra Madre) · A. austromontana (New Mexico Hummingbird Mint) · A. austromontana 'Pink Pop' · A. barberi · A. barberi 'Tutti Frutti' (Tutti Frutti Giant Hyssop) · A. barberi 'Tutti-Frutti' · A. barberi var. Firebird · A. breviflora (Arizona Hummingbird Mint) · A. camphor hyssop · A. 'Cana' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. cana 'Cinnabar Rose' · A. cana 'Heather Queen' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. cana 'Purple Pygmy' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. cana 'Sinning' (Hummingbird Mint) · A. cana Sonoran Sunset = 'Sinning' · A. cana variegated · A. coccinea · A. cusickii (Cusick's Giant Hyssop) · A. cusickii var. parva · A. cypriani · A. eplingiana · A. foeniculum (Blue Giant Hyssop) · A. foeniculum 'Alabaster' · A. foeniculum 'Alba' · A. foeniculum 'Blue Fortune' (Blue Fortune Agastache) · A. foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee' (Golden Jubilee Licorice Mint) · A. foeniculum 'Licorice Alabaster' (Licorice Mint) · A. foeniculum 'Licorice Blue' (Licorice Mint) · A. foeniculum 'Licorice White' (Licorice Mint) · A. formosana · A. glaucifolia · A. greenei · A. ionocalyx · A. lanceolata · A. mearnsii (San Luis Mountains Giant-Hyssop) · A. mexicana (Mexican Hyssop) · A. mexicana 'Acapulco Orange' · A. mexicana 'Acapulco Rose' · A. mexicana 'Acapulco Salmon & Pink' (Mexican Giant Hyssop) · A. mexicana 'Blue Fortune' · A. mexicana 'Carille Carmine' · A. mexicana 'Carminea' · A. mexicana 'Champagne' (Mexican Hyssop) · A. mexicana 'Marchant's Pink' · A. mexicana 'Mauve Beauty' · A. mexicana 'Red Fortune' · A. mexicana 'Rosea' · A. mexicana 'Sangria' · A. mexicana 'Toronjil Morado' · A. mexicana pink · A. mexicana subsp. xolocotziana · A. micrantha (White Giant Hyssop) · A. micrantha var. durangensis · A. neomexicana · A. neomexicana 'Lavender Haze' (New Mexico Hummingbird Mint) · A. nepetoides (Catnip Giant Hyssop) · A. occidentalis (Western Giant Hyssop) · A. orange · A. pallida (Pale Giant Hyssop) · A. pallida var. coriacea · A. pallidiflora (Bill Williams Mountain Giant Hyssop) · A. pallidiflora havardii · A. pallidiflora neomexicana (Bill Williams Mountain Giant Hyssop) · A. pallidiflora neomexicana 'Rose Mint' · A. pallidiflora pallidiflora · A. pallidiflora pallidiflora var. Gilensis · A. pallidiflora pallidiflora var. Greenei · A. pallidiflora pallidiflora var. Pallidiflora · A. pallidiflora subsp. neomexicana (Bill Williams Mountain Giant Hyssop) · A. pallidiflora var. gilensis (Bill Williams Mountain Giant Hyssop) · A. pallidiflora var. greenei (Bill Williams Mountain Giant Hyssop) · A. pallidiflora var. havardii (Bill Williams Mountain Giant Hyssop) · A. pallidiflora var. neomexicana (Bill Williams Mountain Giant Hyssop) · A. pallidiflora var. neomexicana 'Lavender Haze' · A. palmeri · A. parvifolia (Small-Leaved Agastache) · A. pink · A. pringlei (Pringle's Giant Hyssop) · A. pringlei (Briq.) Lint and Epl. var. verticillata (Woot. and Standl.) R.W (Organ Mountains Giant-Hyssop) · A. pringlei var. verticillata (Pringle's Giant Hyssop) · A. rugosa (Korean Mint) · A. rugosa 'Golden Jubilee' (Golden Gubilee Anise Hyssop) · A. rugosa 'Honey Bee Blue' · A. rugosa 'Honey' · A. rugosa 'Korean Zest' · A. rugosa 'Liquorice Blue' · A. rugosa (Fisch. & C.A.Mey) Kuntze var. alba · A. rugosa f. albiflora · A. rugosa f. albiflora 'Alabaster' · A. rugosa f. albiflora 'Honey Bee White' · A. rugosa f. albiflora 'Liquorice White' · A. rugosa pink-flowered · A. rupestris (Thread-Leaf Giant Hyssop) · A. rupestris 'Apache Sunset' (Licorice Mint) · A. rupestris 'Root Beer' · A. scrophulariaefolia · A. scrophulariaefolius · A. scrophulariifolia (Purple Giant Hyssop) · A. scrophulariifolia 'Blue Licorice' · A. tomentosa · A. urticifolia (Nettle-Leaf Giant-Hyssop) · A. urticifolia 'Alba Variegata' · A. urticifolia 'Alba' (Giant Hyssop) · A. urticifolia 'Liquorice' · A. urticifolia (Benth.) O.Kuntze var. urticifolia (Benth.) Kuntze (Nettleleaf Giant Hyssop) · A. urticifolia var. glaucifolia (Nettleleaf Giant Hyssop) · A. urticifolia var. urticifolia (Nettleleaf Giant Hyssop) · A. utricifolia · A. verticillata · A. wrightii (Sonoran Giant Hyssop)

Footnotes

1. "Agastache". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 106. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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