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Is this an agastache?

WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64
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Can anyone help me identify this plant that I have so much of in my garden. It seeds everywhere and looks great at this time of year. 

I thought it was an agastache but it does not look quite like the ones I can find on the RHS website such as agastache blue fortune. Could it be a salvia? It has a square stem. Could it be a salvia?

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Do the leaves have any scent ?
    I think Agastache do have square stems, but the flowers look almost like Veronica .
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I can’t see the flowers,  when I blow the photo up it’s very blurred.
    I think it’s agastache but the flower heads look a bit small for that. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64

  • WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64
    No the leaves do not have any scent. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Looking at the leaves on my agastache,  I think the OP must be a salvia.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    One of the Scutellarias


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @nutcutlet absolutely,   I couldn’t see it would be a salvia but couldn’t think what.

    Scutellaria Lateriflora 
    Virginian Skullcap, Blue Skullcap, Mad Dog Skullcap





    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64
    Yes! Its 

    Scutellaria altissima

    Helmet flower, skullcap


    Thanks Nutcutlet!! You solved my longstanding mystery. 
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