title: Agastache pallidiflora
text: # Agastache pallidiflora
  
  Agastache pallidiflora, commonly known as New Mexico giant hyssop or Bill Williams Mountain giant hyssop, is a plant in the mint family.
  
  ## Description
  
  It is a perennial herb that grows up to 4 ft (120 cm) tall. Leaves are semi-evergreen, simple and opposite in arrangement. Flower petals are white to purple in color and bloom July to October. It grows in moist canyons.
  
  ## 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.
  
  