Monday 8 September 2014
Lavandula is a genus of 39 known species of flowering plants in
the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found from Cape
Verde and the Canary Islands, southern Europe across to northern and eastern
Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India. Many members of
the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants
for garden and landscape use. Source
