Agastache pallidiflora

{{Short description|Plant species in the mint family}}

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| status_ref = {{cite web |last1=NatureServe |title=Agastache pallidiflora |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.150431/Agastache_pallidiflora |access-date=5 November 2024 |location=Arlington, Virginia |date=2024}}

| genus = Agastache

| species = pallidiflora

| authority = (A.Heller) Rydb., 1906

| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies and varieties

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| A. pallidiflora var. gilensis | R.W.Sanders

| A. pallidiflora var. greenei | (Briq.) R.W.Sanders

| A. pallidiflora var. harvardii | (A.Gray) R.W.Sanders

| A. pallidiflora subsp. neomexicana | (Briq.) Lint & Epling

| A. pallidiflora subsp. pallidiflora |

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| Brittonastrum pallidiflorum | A.Heller (1899)

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Agastache pallidiflora, commonly known as New Mexico giant hyssop or Bill Williams Mountain giant hyssop, is a plant in the mint family.

Description

File:Agastache pallidiflora var. pallidiflora - Flickr - aspidoscelis (1).jpg

It is a perennial herb that grows up to {{Convert|4|ft|cm|abbr=on}} tall. Leaves are semi-evergreen, simple and opposite in arrangement. Flower petals are white to purple in color and bloom July to October.{{Cite web |title=Species Detail Forb |url=https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Agastache&species=pallidiflora |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=cals.arizona.edu}} It grows in moist canyons.{{Cite web|title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=AGPA|access-date=|website=www.wildflower.org}}

Uses

It is used by the Ramah Navajo as a ceremonial chant lotion, for bad coughs, and the dried, pulverized root used as dusting powder for sores or cankers. The Ramah also use it a fumigant for "deer infection", as a febrifuge, and to protect from witches.{{Cite web|url=http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Agastache+pallidiflora|title = BRIT - Native American Ethnobotany Database}}

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