Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Yellow Giant-hyssop at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-07-002:
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Giant-hyssop
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_agne2_001_lvd
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Jeff Ausmus jma_a_nepetoides2
August Monroe County MI
In cultivation
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Jeff Ausmus jma_aganep2
August Monroe County MI
In cultivation
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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.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_agastache_nepetoides2
August
Flowers yellowish-green with stamens that extend outside the corolla, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-07-002:
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
3600
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Look for it in woodlands and forests, generally over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow to yellowish-white
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p035
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p224
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p216
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p142