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Lavandula pubescens
Downy lavender is a fragrant, branching perennial shrub from dry desert and scrubland regions of the eastern Mediterranean and western Arabia. It needs full sun, very well-drained soil and little water.
Lavandula pubescens, the downy lavender, is a species of flowering, aromatic herbaceous shrub in the family Lamiaceae. Its native range is from the SE. Mediterranean to the Western Arabian Peninsula.
The native range of L. pubescens is the south-eastern Mediterranean to the western Arabian Peninsula. It grows mostly in desert or dry shrubland.
Lavandula pubescens is one of five Lavandula species growing wild in Yemen. The plant is used in Yemeni traditional medicine, where it is believed to have sedative, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, anti-depressive, anti-amnesia, and anti-obesity properties.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lavandula pubescens 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.
