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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Mentheae
  8. Catmints, Ground Ivies, and Hyssops
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Top native catmints, ground ivies, and hyssops

11 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

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11 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 4 Part shade 4 Full shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Well drained 2 Moist 2

Water use

Medium 2

Soil

Rocky 2 Sand 2 Loam 1

Soil pH

Neutral 1

Toughness

Drought tolerant

Yes 1

Deer resistant

Yes 2

Resists

Diseases 1 Insect pests 1 Rabbits 1

Form

Habit

Erect 2 Clumping 1

Plant type

Perennial 10 Wildflower 9 Herbaceous perennial 2 Annual 1 Edible 1
  • Yellow Giant Hyssop Agastache nepetoides caterpillars 1 food 1 flowers 84
  • Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum food 2 flowers 186
  • Purple Giant Hyssop Agastache scrophulariifolia flowers 96
  • Nettle-leaf Giant Hyssop Agastache urticifolia flowers 92
  • Small-leaved Horsemint Agastache parvifolia flowers 43
  • Western Giant Hyssop Agastache occidentalis flowers 38
  • Threadleaf Giant Hyssop Agastache rupestris flowers 37
  • Cusick's Giant Hyssop Agastache cusickii flowers 35
  • Mosquito Plant Agastache cana flowers 19
  • American Dragonhead Dracocephalum parviflorum
  • Meehan's Mint Meehania cordata

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