Scientific Name
Agastache foeniculum
Files
Download Seed: The yellowish brown nutlets are 1.3 to 1.5 mm long. (80 KB)
Download Seedling: Three month old seedling of lavender hyssop. (115 KB)
Download Vegetative: The leaf blades are 4-9 cm long and 2-2.5 cm wide. (109 KB)
Download Flowering: The flower spikes can be 4-12 cm long. (57 KB)
Download Fruiting: Lavender hyssop produces fruit in late summer. (87 KB)
Family Name
Lamiaceae
Common Name
Lavender hyssop, Blue Giant Hyssop
Native American Name
Lakota: wahpe' yata' pi
Description
Agastache foeniculum is a(n) perenial herb rhizomatous, which grows 0.6 m to 1 m in height. This species is commonly found upland woods and prairies(Kindscher). The leaves are opposite, egg-shaped, greenish above, and whitish. Agastache foeniculum has lavender purple bluish purple flowers that bloom from July to August.
Additional Notes: Flowers are five toothed, and appear in whorls, in a simple terminal spikelike arrangement.
Horticulture Notes
Seed Collection: Collect seed in September
Germination: Fall sow or stratification
Vegetative Propagation: Easily planted by division of rootstock cuttings
Soils: Sandy (well drained)
Light:
Water: Moist
Notes: The seeds smell like licorice
Additional Notes
wahpe' yata'pi means leaf that is chewed