BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES: Agastache cusickii | Cusick's Giant Hyssop 



GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS : 
Cusick's giant hyssop is a dwarf perennial forb, usually 4 to 8 inches
(10-20 cm) tall with a spiked inflorescence.  Numerous simple or
branched stems arise from a woody taproot and branching caudex.  Leaves
are mostly 0.4 to 1.0 inch (1-2.5 cm) long and are finely puberulent.
The fruits are nutlets [3,4,5].


RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM : 
   Chamaephyte


REGENERATION PROCESSES : 
NO-ENTRY


SITE CHARACTERISTICS : 
Cusick's giant hyssop is found on dry, rocky sites, and often on talus
slopes.  It occurs at mid- to upper elevations in mountains (7,590 to
10,560 feet [2,300-3,200 m]) [3,4,5].

Mid- to high elevation sites in the Santa Rosa and Toiyabe ranges in
Nevada are occupied by scattered limber pine (Pinus flexis) and
pinyon-juniper woodlands at the lower elevational limits of Cusick's
giant hyssop.  On Steens Mountain, Oregon, Cusick's giant hyssop may be
associated with western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis), curlleaf
mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius), quaking aspen (Populus
tremuloides), or high-elevation sagebrush-grasslands [1].  In the Tendoy
Mountains, Montana, Cusick's giant hyssop is common on limestone talus
with mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) and Indian ricegrass
(Oryzopsis hymenoides) [7].


SUCCESSIONAL STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT : 
Cusick's giant hyssop flowers from June to August [3,5].

Related categories for Species: Agastache cusickii | Cusick's Giant Hyssop