Free garden planner — save plants, plan beds, and get sowing reminders for your spot.
Sign up freeLavandula dentata
shrub
Bees
Butterflies🐝 Needs pollinatorsLavandula dentata, commonly known as French lavender or fringed lavender, is an evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean basin, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen, and the Arabian Peninsula. It grows to approximately 60–100 cm tall with gray-green, linear or lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges and a lightly woolly texture, producing long-lasting narrow spikes of purple flowers topped with pale violet bracts from late spring through summer.
Well-drained, sandy, or rocky soils; tolerates light (sandy), medium (loamy), and heavy (clay) soils; prefers mildly acid, neutral, and basic (mildly alkaline) soils
Lavandula rotundifolia
shrubA fellow Lamiaceae — similar growing habits to French lavender
