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Lavandula subgenus Lavandula
Lavandula
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the sage family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World, primarily found across the drier, warmer regions of the Mediterranean, with an affinity for maritime breezes.
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
Lavandula section Lavandula
sectionLavandula
Stoechas
sectionStoechas
Lavandula sect. Dentatae
sectionDentatae
Sweet Lavender
hybridLavandula × heterophylla
Lavandula × ginginsii
hybridLavandula × ginginsii
Lavandula × cavanillesii
hybridLavandula × cavanillesii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.139
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.234
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.194
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.130
Florum et coronariarum historia
Rembert Dodoens · 1568 · p.270
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.225
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lavandula in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1680848.