EcoFlora - Agastache

Agastache
Family: Lamiaceae Max Licher	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources JANAS 35(2) PLANT: Perennial herbs, pubescent, glandular, the hairs straight, the glands sunken; stems erect or sometimes prostrate. LEAVES: opposite, linear, lanceolate or triangular, green; margin entire, serrate or crenate. INFLORESCENCE: an indeterminate spike or raceme. FLOWERS: calyx membranous, bicolored, actinomorphic or nearly so, 5 toothed, the teeth free (or 3 upper teeth partially connate), deltoid to attenuate; corolla tubular, zygomorphic, white, yellow, orange, pinkish or purple, the upper lip of 2 fused lobes, the lateral lobes 2, more fused to the upper lip than the lower lobe, the lower lobe clawed with its limb repand, erose or lacerated; stamens 4, exserted from corolla tube but not always exceeding corolla lobes, the filaments adnate to corolla, the anther sacs parallel; style branches equal; ovary lobes nestled in depressions atop the gynophore. NUTLETS: ovoid to oblong, triangular in cross section, with hairs on upper half. x = 9. NOTES: 22 spp.; sw U.S. and n Mex. (Greek: agan = much, stachys = spikes). Sanders, R. W. 1987. Syst. Bot. Monogr. 15:1 92. REFERENCES: Christy, Charlotte M. 2003. Lamiaceae J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 35(2). Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Cal nearly regular, the 15-nerved tube somewhat oblique at the throat, the 3-nerved lobes about alike; upper cor-lip directed forward, shallowly 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed, its central lobe expanded and decurved, but its lateral lobes displaced onto the summit of the cor-tube; stamens 4, exsert, the 2 lower curved upward under the upper cor-lip, the 2 upper longer and downcurved; pollen-sacs parallel or nearly so; nutlets minutely hairy at the tip; perennial herbs with numerous rather small fls crowded in dense verticils subtended by inconspicuous bracts, forming terminal, continuous or interrupted spike-like infls. 20, N. Amer. and se. Asia. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: TNC: Gantz Woods Nature Preserve Agastache anethiodora Map not Available Agastache aurantiaca Map not Available Agastache breviflora Map not Available Agastache cana Map not Available Agastache coccinea Map not Available Agastache cusickii Map not Available Agastache eplingiana Map not Available Agastache foeniculum Map not Available Agastache glaucifolia Map not Available Agastache mearnsii Map not Available Agastache mexicana Map not Available Agastache micrantha Map not Available Agastache nepetoides Map not Available Agastache occidentalis Map not Available Agastache pallida Map not Available Agastache pallidiflora Map not Available Agastache palmeri Map not Available Agastache parvifolia Map not Available Agastache pringlei Map not Available Agastache rugosa Map not Available Agastache rupestris Map not Available Agastache scrophulariifolia Map not Available Agastache urticifolia Map not Available Agastache wrightii Map not Available