Agastache

Butterflies perched on Agastache foeniculum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lamiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Nepetoideae
Tribus: Mentheae
Subtribus: Nepetinae
Genus: Agastache
Sectiones: A. sect. Agastache – A. sect. Brittonastrum
Species: A. aurantiaca – A. breviflora – A. cana – A. coccinea – A. cusickii – A. eplingiana – A. foeniculum – A. mearnsii – A. mexicana – A. micrantha – A. nepetoides – A. occidentalis – A. pallida – A. pallidiflora – A. palmeri – A. parvifolia – A. pringlei – A. rugosa – A. rupestris – A. scrophulariifolia – A. urticifolia – A. wrightii

Name

Agastache Clayton ex Gronov. (1762)

• Type species: A. scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Brittonastrum Briq. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3a): 234. 1896.
    • Type species: B. mexicanum (Kunth) Briq.
  • Dekinia M.Martens & Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11(2): 195. 1844.
    • Type species: D. coccinea M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Flessera Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 192. 1763.
    • Type species: non design.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America Regional: USA Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming Regional: Mexico Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest Regional: Canada Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territorie, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Eastern Asia Amur, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Taiwan Regional: China China North-Central Introduced into: Austria, Central European Rus, China South-Central, China Southeast, Delaware, Germany, Laos, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Sweden, Tibet, Vietnam References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Clayton, W.D. 1762. Flora Virginica, ed. 2: 88.

Additional references

• Govaerts, R.H.A. 2003. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [unavailable for the public] Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Agastache in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 02. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Agastache. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 02. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Agastache. Published online. Accessed: May 02 2022. Reference page.

Vernacular names

• English: Giant Hyssop
• suomi: Iisot

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