Lavandula angustifolia (Common Lavender)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Jan Vršovský — fig. a Jan Vršovský, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192124835

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Christoph Moning — fig. b Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157681728

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Thomas Koffel — fig. c Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147248244

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Olivier Argagnon — fig. d Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145688705

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Thierry Helminger — fig. e Thierry Helminger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138291922

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Robert H. Wardell — fig. f Robert H. Wardell, CC0 1.0 / obs. 100151927

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Patrick Hacker — fig. g Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140740123

Lavandula angustifolia, photographed by Quentin Groom — fig. h Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133856171

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Flowering n = 550 observations

167

172

Flowering observations of Lavandula angustifolia by month
Month	Observations
Jan	7
Feb	3
Mar	7
Apr	22
May	31
Jun	167
Jul	172
Aug	56
Sep	27
Oct	28
Nov	17
Dec	13

Peak flowering in Jul, from 550 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Lavandula angustifolia f. albiflora (Rehder) Geerinck
Lavandula angustifolia subsp. turolensis (Pau) Rivas Mart.
Lavandula angustifolia var. delphinensis (Jord. ex Billot) O.Bolòs & Vigo
Lavandula angustifolia var. pyrenaica (DC.) Masclans
Lavandula angustifolia var. turolensis (Pau) O.Bolòs & Vigo
Lavandula delphinensis Jord. ex Billot
Lavandula fragrans Salisb.
Lavandula minor Garsault
Lavandula officinalis Chaix
Lavandula officinalis f. alba (Ging.) Rehder
Lavandula officinalis f. albiflora Rehder
Lavandula officinalis prol. pyrenaica (DC.) Rouy
Lavandula officinalis var. delphinensis (Jord. ex Billot) Rouy
Lavandula officinalis var. faucheana (Briq.) Rouy
Lavandula officinalis var. pyrenaica (DC.) Chaytor
Lavandula officinalis var. pyrenaica (DC.) P.Fourn.
Lavandula pyrenaica DC.
Lavandula spica L.
Lavandula spica var. angustifolia (Ging.) Briq.
Lavandula spica var. delphinensis (Jord. ex Billot) Nyman
Lavandula spica var. faucheana Briq.
Lavandula spica var. pyrenaica (DC.) Nyman
Lavandula spica var. turolensis Pau
Lavandula vera DC.

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.