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Agastache urticifolia (Benth.) Kuntze
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Canada
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Isotype for Agastache glaucifolia A. Heller
Catalog Number: US 416802
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of original publication
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. A. Heller
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Between Knight Valley & Mark Westsprings., Sonoma, California, United States, North America
- Isotype: Heller, A. A. 1904. Muhlenbergia. 1: 32.
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Comments: Some consider this species to be comprised of two varieties (Kartesz 1999; Cronquist et al. 1984; Hitchcock and Cronquist 1974; Hitchcock et al. 1959; not Hickman 1993; Munz 1959; Abrams 1951).
Agastache urticifolia is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name nettle-leaf giant hyssop[citation needed] or horse nettle.[1] It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in many habitat types. This is an aromatic perennial herb growing an erect stem with widely spaced leaves, each lance-shaped to nearly triangular and toothed. The leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and 7 wide. The inflorescence is a dense spike of many flowers. Each flower has long sepals tipped with bright purple and tubular corollas in shades of pink and purple. The fruit is a light brown, fuzzy nutlet about 2 millimeters long. The plant was used medicinally by several Native American groups, especially the leaves.
References[edit source | edit]
- ^ Manning, M.E.; Padgett, W.G.; Region, U.S.F.S.I. (1995). Riparian community type classification for Humboldt and Toiyabe National Forests, Nevada and eastern California. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Region.
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