| Scientific Name: | Lavandula stoechas |
| Common Name: | French lavender, Spanish lavender |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Round |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Fragrance, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Herb, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Sheared hedge, Small garden/space, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Tomentose, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Purple, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves linear, entire, silverish; florets dark purple to black, about 4mm wide, packed in a spike-like verticillaster with purple (-white) bracts about 2cm long on the top. | |