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Yellow Giant Hyssop

Agastache nepetoides

Also called Catnip giant hyssop

Yellow Giant Hyssop
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
E. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Agastache nepetoides, commonly known as yellow giant hyssop, is a perennial flowering plant native to the central and eastern United States and Canada. It is a member of the Lamiaceae (mint) family.

Where it grows

The plant is native in the United States from Nebraska to the west, Georgia to the south, Massachusetts to the east, and the Canadian border to the north. In Canada, it is native in Quebec and Ontario. Its natural habitat is meadows, lowland woods and thickets, and upland deciduous woods.

Other Agastache plants

Mosquito plant · Cusick's giant hyssop · Blue giant hyssop · Giant Mexican Hyssop · White giant hyssop · Western giant hyssop · Bill Williams Mountain giant hyssop · Smallleaf giant hyssop · Korean Mint · Threadleaf giant hyssop · Purple giant hyssop · Nettleleaf giant hyssop

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agastache nepetoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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