{"id":3765,"date":"2013-01-04T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T02:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2013-01-04T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T02:38:57","slug":"agastache-wrightii-sonoran-giant-hyssop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/3765\/agastache-wrightii-sonoran-giant-hyssop\/","title":{"rendered":"Agastache wrightii – Sonoran Giant Hyssop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Agastache<\/p>\n

\"Agastache<\/p>\n

\"Agastache<\/p>\n

Plant Name<\/p>\n

Scientific Name:<\/span> Agastache wrightii<\/em><\/p>\n

Common Name:<\/span> Sonoran Giant Hyssop<\/p>\n

Plant Characteristics<\/p>\n

Duration:<\/span> Perennial<\/p>\n

Growth Habit:<\/span> Subshrub, Herb\/Forb<\/p>\n

Arizona Native Status:<\/span> Native<\/p>\n

Habitat:<\/span> Upland, Mountain. This plant grows in canyons and on slopes in grassy oak and pine woodlands or chaparral in upland areas and at lower elevations in the mountains.<\/p>\n

Flower Color:<\/span> Blue to violet-blue<\/p>\n

Flowering Season:<\/span> Summer, Fall. This wildflower blooms after the summer monsoon rains have begun.<\/p>\n

Height:<\/span> Up to 2 feet (60 cm) tall<\/p>\n

Description:<\/span> The tiny flowers are in interrupted whorls along long, slender, erect flower spikes. The individual flowers are tubular and have a 2-lobed upper lip and a 3-lobed lower lip. The flowers are followed by small, brown, oblong nutlets that are tipped with small hairs. The leaves are bright green above, paler and grayer green below, triangular to lance-shaped, serrate to toothed, point-tipped, petioled, 1 1\/2 to 2 times longer than wide, and in a basal rosette at the base of the plant and paired opposite on the stems. The stems are erect to sprawling, light green in color, and covered with short, fine gray-white hairs.<\/p>\n

The similar White Giant Hyssop (Agastache micrantha<\/em>) has white flowers and leaves that are 2 1\/2 to 3 times longer than wide. All the other Agastache<\/em> species found here in southeastern Arizona have much larger, showier flowers.<\/p>\n

Special Characteristics<\/p>\n

Fragrant<\/span> – The plants are pleasantly aromatic.<\/p>\n

Classification<\/p>\n

Kingdom:<\/span> Plantae – Plants
\nSubkingdom:<\/span> Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
\nSuperdivision:<\/span> Spermatophyta – Seed plants
\nDivision:<\/span> Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
\nClass:<\/span> Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
\nSubclass:<\/span> Asteridae
\nOrder:<\/span> Lamiales
\nFamily:<\/span> Lamiaceae – Mint family
\nGenus:<\/span> Agastache<\/em> Clayton ex Gronov. – giant hyssop
\nSpecies:<\/span> Agastache wrightii<\/em> (Greenm.) Woot. & Standl. – Sonoran giant hyssop<\/p>\n

More About This Plant<\/p>\n

Arizona County Distribution Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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