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
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–6 ft
- Spacing
- 2–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- purple, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, hummingbirds
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- CT, IA, IL, IN, MN, NC, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WI