Distribution: Southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States southward to Georgia and Missouri.
Habitat: Purple Giant Hyssop is found in wet woods and thickets.
Flowering period: July to September.
Lucas Land
Purple Giant Hyssop
Agastache scrophulariifolia
From Nearctic
Identification: Flowers purple or purple-pink, tubular, with a hanging, biblike lower petal lobe. Two pairs of protruding stamens, one pair curving upward, the other pair downward. Style thin, long, protruding, bifid at the tip. Flowers arranged in dense clusters in the upper leaf axils, the upper clusters fusing to give the appearance of a terminal spike. Entire plant hairy. Stem square purple, and leaves in opposite pairs. Leaves heart-shaped, coarsely dentate on the outer margin, and with white hairs on the undersides. Plant 1 to 5 feet in height.