Purple Giant Hyssop
Agastache scrophulariifolia
Purple giant hyssop is a tall, aromatic mint with soft lavender-purple flower spikes that hum with bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds from midsummer on. Deer-resistant and a superb nectar plant for moist sun to part shade.
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–6 ft
- Spacing
- 2–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- red, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, hummingbirds
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV