Lavandula multifida: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Lavandula
- Species
- Lavandula multifida
- Scientific Name
- Lavandula multifida
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lavandula multifida
Lavandula multifida, the fernleaf lavender or Egyptian lavender, is a small plant, sometimes a shrub, native to the southern regions of the Mediterranean, including Iberia, Sicily, Northwest Africa and the Canary Islands.
The plant grows up to 24 in (61 cm) tall. The stems are grey and woolly. Leaves are fernlike, double pinnate and silver to green in colour. Dark blue or violet flowers may be either single or three-pronged, and are borne on long stems held above the foliage.
L. multifida is grown both as a herb and as an ornamental plant. Foliage is aromatic, but it has been noted that the scent is closer to that of oregano than to other kinds of lavender. In cooler latitudes it is killed by winter frost, but can be grown as an annual. Cultivars include 'Spanish Eyes'.
...Lavandula multifida in languages:
- Czech
- levandule rozeklaná
- Danish
- Fjer-Lavendel
- English
- Cut-leaved lavender
- Estonian
- lõhislehine lavendel
- Finnish
- liuskalaventeli
- Portuguese
- alfazema-de-folha-recortada
- Swedish
- sommarlavendel
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Lavandula angustifolia
- Lavandula antineae
- Lavandula aristibracteata
- Lavandula atriplicifolia
- Lavandula austroapennina
- Lavandula bipinnata
- Lavandula bramwellii
- Lavandula buchii
- Lavandula canariensis
- Lavandula citriodora
- Lavandula coronopifolia
- Lavandula dentata
- Lavandula dhofarensis
- Lavandula erythraeae
- Lavandula galgalloensis
- Lavandula gibsonii
- Lavandula hasikensis
- Lavandula lanata
- Lavandula latifolia
- Lavandula macra
- Lavandula mairei
- Lavandula maroccana
- Lavandula minutolii
- Lavandula multifida
- Lavandula nimmoi
- Lavandula nooruddinii
- Lavandula pedunculata
- Lavandula pinnata
- Lavandula pubescens
- Lavandula qishnensis
- Lavandula rejdalii
- Lavandula rotundifolia
- Lavandula saharica
- Lavandula samhanensis
- Lavandula setifera
- Lavandula somaliensis
- Lavandula stoechas
- Lavandula sublepidota
- Lavandula subnuda
- Lavandula tenuisecta
- Lavandula viridis
- Lavandula × alportelensis
- Lavandula × cadevallii
- Lavandula × cavanillesii
- Lavandula × ginginsii
- Lavandula × heterophylla
- Lavandula × intermedia
- Lavandula × limae
- Lavandula × losae































































































































































