Agastache occidentalis
Western Giant Hyssop

Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)

Photo taken at Lower Moses Coulee, dry talus slope next to dry meadow (20 meters away)

Flowers:

verticils crowded in a dense spikelike inflorescence; calyx 5 lobed, 2 lipped, with 15 or more prominent veins; 4 stamens exserted, the upper pair greater than the lower

Leaves:

petiolate or subsessile, toothed; finely and closely tomentose puberulent beneath

Plant:

perennial, 40 to 50 cm tall

Habitat:

most often found in rocky places

Distribution of species:

Eastern slope of the Cascades

Distribution of genus:

22 species: North America, Mexico, Asia