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Lavender with serrated leaf

12 years ago

Trader Joe's in Bethesda is selling a lavender with a serrated leaf. They don't know what species it is or where it is from, but it is lovely and lavender smelling as a potted plant.. It looked to me to be more like a desert plant (gray green, thicker fuzzy leaf), but it definitely smells like lavender. Has no flowers.

Does anyone know of a lavender like this or could it be Hyptis emory (From WIKIpedia ==(desert lavender) is a large, multi-stemmed shrub species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae. The genus Hyptis is commonly known as the bushmints.)

Any ideas???

Thanks, Lisa

Comments (3)

User
12 years ago
Sounds like L. dentata (French lavender). I am one zone colder so I can't grow it as a perrenial (it's said to be hady to zone 8). May try one though in a protected spot.
shadysite
Original Author
12 years ago
Thanks, the plant I'm looking at seems much more compact than the pix on google, but the leaf is very similar. I will give it a try and put it out in the summer and bring it in in winter. Very pretty leaf and the info seems to be that it will survive indoors if not outside in my zone.

Lisa
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jchandler2730
12 years ago
I think you have lavandula stachys, native to Sardinia. It has unusual flower spikes, too. One of my favorites.

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