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Lavender
Lavandula
Lavandula is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found in Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, and from Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to India.
Dry grassy slopes amongst rocks, in exposed, usually parched, hot rocky situations often on calcareous soils.
The volatile oil may rarely cause sensitization.
Part of the shared Foragers Log catalogue · Herb