ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Agastache scrophulariaefolia CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: LAMIALES FAMILY: LAMIACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Agastache scrophulariaefolia AUTHORITY: (Willd.) Ktze. COMMON NAMES: PURPLE GIANT HYSSOP SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: AGSC NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST THICKETS WETLAND BORDER OF LAKE SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: UNAVAILABLE NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: BOONE BUREAU CASS CHAMPAIGN COOK CRAWFORD DEKALB DEWITT DUPAGE FAYETTE FULTON GRUNDY HANCOCK HENDERSON HENRY JO DAVIESS KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL KNOX LAKE LOGAN MCDONOUGH MCHENRY MCLEAN MACON MACOUPIN MASON MENARD MORGAN MOULTRIE OGLE PEORIA PIATT PUTNAM ROCK ISLAND SCHUYLER STEPHENSON TAZEWELL VERMILION WABASH WHITESIDE WILL WINNEBAGO WOODFORD GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb TAXONOMY COMMENTS: This is including var. mollis (Fern.) Heller. TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Opposite LEAF TYPE: Simple LEAF MARGIN: Serrate LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Ovate INFLORESCENCE: Spike FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Irregular FLOWER COLOR: Violet FLOWER PLACEMENT: Hypogynous FRUIT: Nut GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Occasional ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Forb LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 7 MONTH END- 9 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distributed along wood edges, sandy soil. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: No data entered WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: No data entered REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 1725 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Gleason, H. A. 1952. The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 3 vols. The New York Botanical Garden, New York. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Agastache scrophulariaefolia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015