Garden Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula officinalis
Lavandula angustifolia is a compact, bushy shrub to 1 metre tall, with narrow, aromatic, grey-green leaves. It produces long, unbranched stalks carrying short, dense spikes of fragrant, pale to deep purple flowers.
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Usually found as an escape from cultivation and often close to habitation.
Flowers in mid and late summer.
Perennial.
A thin scattering of records for this plant as an escape from cultivation from across Britain.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Dylan
Melton Mowbray
21 February 2022
Dylan
Melton Mowbray
21 February 2022
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Species profile
- Common names
- Garden Lavender
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 6
- First record:
- 17/06/2019 (Cunningham, Sally)
- Last record:
- 05/06/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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