Common name
English: Spanish Lavender, Woolly Lavender
German: Wolliger-Lavendel
English: Spanish Lavender, Woolly Lavender
German: Wolliger-Lavendel
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Lamiales (199)
Family: Lamiaceae (99)(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
Climate: sub-tropical
Habit: shrub
Flower colour: purple