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French lavender

Lavandula dentata

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 81, February 80, March 83, April 104, May 62, June 12, July 10, August 12, September 4, October 20, November 29, December 47.
Spain544
Comunitat Valenciana288
Illes Balears109
New Zealand97
Morocco79
Andalucía75
Región de Murcia66
United States45
Wellington Region44
Australia41

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
FamilyMint Family · Lamiaceae
GenusLavenders · Lavandula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise French lavender with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.