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shrub
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Butterflies🐝 Needs pollinatorsLavandula stoechas is an evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean Basin, typically growing 30–100 cm tall but occasionally up to 2 metres. It produces distinctive purple flowers with characteristic elongated sterile bracts at the flower spike apex, blooming from late spring through early summer. The plant is drought-tolerant with a pungent, resinous, medicinal flavour and is used primarily for ornamental, medicinal, and essential oil purposes.
Well-drained, sandy, or rocky soils; tolerates light (sandy), medium (loamy), and heavy (clay) soils; prefers mildly acid, neutral, and basic (mildly alkaline) soils; can grow in very alkaline soils.
Lavandula dentata
shrubA fellow Lamiaceae — similar growing habits to Spanish lavender
