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Lavandula multifida
Also called Downy Lavender, Fern Leaf Lavender
Cut leaf lavender is a small Mediterranean subshrub with fern-like silver-green leaves and violet flowers, grown as a herb and ornamental. It needs sun, sharp drainage, and protection from frost in cooler climates, where it is often grown as an annual.
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.
English lavender · French lavender · Woolly Lavender · Broadleaved lavender · Lavender · Spanish Lavender · Lavandula pinnata · Downy Lavender · French lavender · Lavender
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lavandula multifida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
