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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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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 Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agastache nepetoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-07-002:
Agastache nepetoides FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agastache nepetoides
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 (Chafin, 2007).
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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 (Carman, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agastache nepetoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-07-002:
Agastache nepetoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agastache nepetoides
3600
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: woodlands and forests, generally over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow to yellowish-white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
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 (Chafin, 2007) p035
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p224
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p216
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p142
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