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Lavandula × christiana

 
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Lavandula × christiana - Lafant, Feathered Lavender
Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
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Common name: Lafant, Feathered Lavender
Family: Lamiaceae (Mint)
Distribution: Gardd/Garden
Hardiness: (H1c) Heated glasshouse-warm temperate 5 to 10°C (USDA 11)
Life form: Evergreen perennial • Bytholwyrdd lluosflwydd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: Lavandula (lav-AN-dew-lah): Latin; lavare (to wash).
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: christiana (kris-tee-AH-nay): After Konrad Hermann Heinrich Christ (1833-1933), Swiss botanist.
Description: A tender, woody-based perennial or shrub up to about 0.8-1m high, with an erect and speading habit, evergreen, aromatic, deeply lobed grey-green leaves, the lobes also divided, and branched flowering stems 30-60cm long topped by splender spikes 4-10cm long of large, fragrant, lavender-violet flowers with darker violet-blue calyces in summer; it may also flower almost year round.
Links: Royal Horticultural Society

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