| Scientific Name: | Lavandula angustifolia |
| Common Name: | English lavender |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Fragrance, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Herb, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Rock garden, Sheared hedge, Small garden/space, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Tomentose, Branching hairs, Distinctive smell, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Violet, Purple, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate-linear, 2-5cm long x 3-5mm wide on flowering shoots (those on leafy shoots nare about half this size), turning silverish-gray, tomentose and highly aromatic, margins entire, petiole 1-2mm long; verticillasters 4-6cm long, florets 4-6mm wide, violet blue to purple, highly scented, Jun-Aug. | |