Agastache 'Black Adder'
Object Details
- Description
- This is a densely flowered giant hyssop cultivar with a long flowering season. Once established, it resists drought well. It can live up to six years in good conditions.
- Hardiness
- -10 - 30 F
- Attracts
- Bees, birds, butterflies
- Bloom Time
- June-September
- Parentage
- Agastache rugosum x Agastache foeniculum
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Range
- cultivated
- Topic
- Display Gardens
- Living Collections
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- Smithsonian Gardens Display Collection
- On Display
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2021-0490A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Common Name
- Giant hyssop cultivar
- Hummingbird's mint cultivar
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Asteranae
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Agastache
- Life Form
- Herbaceous perennial
- Bloom Characteristics
- Inflorescences are 6-8" (15-20 cm) long with false-whorls of tubular, two lipped, light purple flowers that bloom from nearly black buds.
- Foliage Characteristics
- Lance to ovate shaped leaves are green and smell of licorice when crushed.
- Plant Size
- 2-3' high by 1-1.5' wide (.6-1 m x .3-.45 m)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2021-0490A