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Definition of Giant hyssop
1. Noun. Any of a number of aromatic plants of the genus Agastache.
Group relationships: Agastache, Genus Agastache
Specialized synonyms: Agastache Nepetoides, Yellow Giant Hyssop, Agastache Foeniculum, Anise Hyssop, Agastache Mexicana, Mexican Hyssop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giant Hyssop
Literary usage of Giant hyssop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"giant hyssop. Falls of the St. Croix, Parry; Lac qui Parle county, Upham. ...
giant hyssop. Frequent southward ; extending north to the upper Mississippi ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... Agastache foeniculum (Pursh) Kuntze Anise giant-hyssop; Blue giant-hyssop
Herbaceous perennial Cultivated and rarely escaped. ..."
3. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"... greenish-yellow; corolla about as long as the calyx CATNIP GIANT-HYSSOP. ...
purplish or whitish; corolla longer than the calyx FIGWORT GIANT-HYSSOP. ..."
4. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Purple giant hyssop. 18. NEPETA. Linn.—Cat Mint. (Named, some say, from Nepi, a
town in Italy, others, from Nepa, a scorpion, for whose bite this plant was ..."
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