| Scientific Name: | Agastache foeniculum |
| Common Name: | anise-hyssop, giant hyssop |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Fragrance, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 4-angled, 60-120cm tall; leaves opposite, ovate, most 6-10cm long x 2-7cm wide, margin serrate, lower surface downy, fragrant; verticillasters spike-like, florets tightly clustered, 2-lipped, tubular, <1cm long. | |