Lavender Flowers: Scientific Classification
This article is about the genus of flowering plants. For other uses, see Lavender (disambiguation).
Lavender
Lavender flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Nepetoideae
Tribe: Lavanduleae
Genus: Lavandula
L.
Type species
Lavandula spica
L.
Species
39 species, including some hybrids, see text.
The lavenders (Lavandula) are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. An Old World genus, distributed from Macaronesia (Cape Verde and Canary Islands and Madeira) across Africa, the Mediterranean, South-West Asia, Arabia, Western Iran and South-East India. It is thought the genus originated in Asia but is most diversified in its western distribution.
The genus includes annuals, herbaceous plants, subshrubs, and small shrubs. The native range extends across the Canary Islands, North and East Africa, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Arabia and India. Because the cultivated forms are planted in gardens worldwide, they are occasionally found growing wild as garden escapees, well beyond their natural range. However, since lavender cross-pollinates easily, there are countless variations within the species. The color of the flowers of some forms has come to be called lavender.
Contents [hide]
1 Botany
1.1 Nomenclature and taxonomy
1.1.1 History
1.1.2 Current classification
2 Growing lavenders
3 Uses
3.1 Culinary use
3.2 Medicinal use
3.3 Health precautions
3.3.1 Controversy over possible endocrine-disrupting activity
3.4 Other uses
4 History
5 Taxonomic table
6 Gallery
7 References
8 Sources
9 External links
[edit]Botany
The leaves are long and narrow in most species. In other species they are pinnately toothed, or pinnate, sometimes multiple pinnate and dissected. Flowers are borne in whorls, held on spikes rising above the foliage. Flowers may be blue, violet or lilac. The calyx
Lavender
Lavender flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Nepetoideae
Tribe: Lavanduleae
Genus: Lavandula
L.
Type species
Lavandula spica
L.
Species
39 species, including some hybrids, see text.
The lavenders (Lavandula) are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. An Old World genus, distributed from Macaronesia (Cape Verde and Canary Islands and Madeira) across Africa, the Mediterranean, South-West Asia, Arabia, Western Iran and South-East India. It is thought the genus originated in Asia but is most diversified in its western distribution.
The genus includes annuals, herbaceous plants, subshrubs, and small shrubs. The native range extends across the Canary Islands, North and East Africa, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Arabia and India. Because the cultivated forms are planted in gardens worldwide, they are occasionally found growing wild as garden escapees, well beyond their natural range. However, since lavender cross-pollinates easily, there are countless variations within the species. The color of the flowers of some forms has come to be called lavender.
Contents [hide]
1 Botany
1.1 Nomenclature and taxonomy
1.1.1 History
1.1.2 Current classification
2 Growing lavenders
3 Uses
3.1 Culinary use
3.2 Medicinal use
3.3 Health precautions
3.3.1 Controversy over possible endocrine-disrupting activity
3.4 Other uses
4 History
5 Taxonomic table
6 Gallery
7 References
8 Sources
9 External links
[edit]Botany
The leaves are long and narrow in most species. In other species they are pinnately toothed, or pinnate, sometimes multiple pinnate and dissected. Flowers are borne in whorls, held on spikes rising above the foliage. Flowers may be blue, violet or lilac. The calyx