Hardiness zones
Sunset 2-24
USDA 5 to 11

Landscape Use: Flowering accent, edging, herb or aromatic gardens

Form & Character: Densely mounding and rounded except when in flower

Growth Habit: Evergreen perennial, mounding to 2'.

Foliage/Texture: Opposite, sweetly aromatic, margins entire, lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 2.5"long by 0.25" \wide, tomentose nearly white when immature to grey green at maturity, medium fine texture

Flowers & Fruits: Multiple unbranched spikes to 3.5" long, verticillaster (whorled about the spike), 6-10 flowered, calyx about 0.25" long, 13-nerved, dense pubescent corolla twice as long as calyx, usually violet blue but cultivar dependent; fruit a nutlet, inconspicuous.

Seasonal Color: Flowers in spring

Temperature: Best below 105F. Highly susceptible to root rot during hot humid weather of monsoon.

Light: Full sun

Soil: Well drained soil best, but tolerant of all but heavy clay. Avoid highly organic and amended soils.

Watering: Regular, but will take some drought especially during the cooler season.

Pruning: Lightly shear after bloom to promote compact habit.

Propagation: Seed and some cutting

Disease and pests: Rot root in poorly drained soils.

Additional comments: MANY cultivated varieties of different growth habit and flower color. Attracts bees and butterflies. Differentiated from L. dentata (French lavender) by lack of marginal leaf dentations. Lavendula contains over 20 species of aromatic herbaceous or woody shrubs.