Agastache foeniculum (Giant Hyssop) - photos and description
Origin: Native.
General: Erect perennial with square, glabrous stems.
Flowers: Flowers light purple in a dense spike, spike measured at 3.5 cm long, flowers early July.
Leaves: Leaves are opposite, serrate, reduced upwards on stem, lower leaf blade measured at 6 cm long and 4 cm wide. Leaf undersides much paler than top side. Leaf undersides sparingly hairy.
Height: Height is listed in Budd's Flora to 80 cm, we measured plants to 69 cm tall.
Habitat: Habitat is the edges of woods and thickets.
Abundance: Common.
When and where photographed: Photos taken July 1st, edge of woods, near Hudson Bay, about 400 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.