Lavandula angustifolia, Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 188

4. L. angustifolia Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 2 (1768)

( L. spica L. , nom. ambig.).

Shrub up to 100(-200) cm, tomentose. Leaves 20-40(-50) mm, lanceolate, oblong or linear, entire, white-tomentose when young, becoming green. Spike 2-8 cm; bracts (1—)3—8 mm, usually broadly rhombic-obovate, acuminate; bracteoles absent or minute; verticillasters 6- to 10- flowered. Calyx 4-5-7 mm, 13-veined, the upper tooth with an obcordate appendage at the apex. Corolla 10-12 mm, purple. Mediterranean region; widely cultivated fo r ornament and fo r perfume. Co Ga G r Hs It Ju Sa Si [Bu Rs (K)].