Common name
English: Spanish Lavender, Woolly Lavender
German: Wolliger-Lavendel
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2635)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2573)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2146)
Order: Lamiales (175)
Family: Lamiaceae (93)(family description)
Genus: Lavandula (5)
Epithet: lanata Boiss. (2)
Synonym: Lavandula tomentosa (Lundmark) Pau
lanata => woolly or cottony, covered with long inter-grown curly hairs
tomentosa => densely covered with short, soft, tangled hairs
Characteristics
Climate: sub-tropical
Habit: shrub
Flower colour: purple
