Agastache 'Blue Fortune'
Object Details
- Description
- This cultivar has pale lavender flowers, is excellent as a border in a garden, and has fragrant leaves which can be used to scent a room or add flavor to a salad.
- Hardiness
- -20 - 30 F
- Attracts
- Bees, birds, butterflies to nectar
- Bloom Time
- July to September
- Ethnobotanical Uses
- Leaves can be used in drinks and potpourris.
- Parentage
- Agastache rugosa x Agastache foeniculum
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Range
- cultivated
- Topic
- Display Gardens
- Living Collections
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Display Collection
- On Display
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2021-0499A
- 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
- Tiny tubes in false whorls are a pale purple-lavender.
- Foliage Characteristics
- Ovate to lanceolate shaped green leaves are up to 4" (10 cm) long, silvery underneath, and fragrant (mint-anise).
- Plant Size
- 2-3' high by 1.5-2' wide (.6-1 m x .45-.6 m)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2021-0499A