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Agastache
Also called Hyssops, Giant Hyssops, Hyssop
Agastache, the giant hyssops, is a genus of aromatic perennial herbs in the mint family, mostly native to North America, with one species from eastern Asia. Commonly grown members form upright plants with spikes of tubular flowers in summer and are grown for their fragrant foliage and pollinator appeal.
Agastache () is a genus of aromatic flowering herbaceous perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. It contains 22 species, mainly native to North America, one species native to eastern Asia. The common names of the species are a variety of fairly ambiguous and confusing "hyssops" and "mints"; as a whole the genus is known as giant hyssops or hummingbird mints.
Propagate from seed or cuttings. Popular cultivars include A. cana 'Heather Queen'. The cultivar 'Blue Fortune' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Leaf tips can be eaten and made into teas. Agastache rugosa has a history of use in Chinese herbology, where it is called huoxiang (Chinese: 藿香; pinyin: huòxiāng).
They grow easily in moist, well-drained soil and prefer a sunny position. Winter hardiness varies; the hardiest is A. foeniculum, hardy to USDA plant hardiness zone 1 in the north of its range; A. nepetoides, A. rugosa, A. scrophulariifolia and A. urticifolia are hardy to zones 3–5 in the northern parts of their ranges.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agastache by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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