French lavender
Lavandula dentata L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 1.2 m
Lamiaceae
Also called Toothed lavender
Formerly Stoechas dentata
When it flowers
Flowers June to April in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Medit., NE. Trop. Africa, Jordan, Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; Wikipedia 60–60 cm
- Spread
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS blue, purple; Wikipedia purple, violet
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Arabic
- الضُرُم
- Spanish
- lavanda, cantueso dentado, alhucema rizada
- Estonian
- hambuline lavendel
- Catalan
- espígol dentat
- Czech
- levandule zoubkatá
- Slovak
- levanduľa zúbkatá
- Lithuanian
- Dantytoji levanda
- Danish
- tandet lavendel
- Russian
- Лаванда зубчатая
- Slovenian
- nazobčana sivka
- German
- Französischer Lavendel, Gezähnter Lavendel
- French
- Lavande dentée
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lavandula dentata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.