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Agastaches are full-sun plants with floriferous plumes of tiny, tubular flowers and foliage that ranges from tiny, needle-like leaves to large, fleshy basal rosettes. Species from the Southwest and Mexico are particularly tolerant of heat and drought. In general, these plants grow better in low fertility soils; give them too much nitrogen and they become floppy. (Propagation by seed also tends to produce lax form.) Similar to Salvias, they need soil with good drainage.

Agastache flowers are magnets for butterflies, honeybees and hummingbirds. The allure for pollinators is even stronger when these plants are mixed with nectar-rich Salvias (sages). Deer tend to avoid plants from both genuses.