Lavandula stoechas luisieri

Description

An evergreen shrub, it usually grows to 30-100 cm (12-39 in) tall and occasionally up to 2 m (7 ft) high in the subspecies luisieri. The leaves are 1-4 cm long, greyish and tomentose. The flowers, which appear in late spring and early summer, are pink to purple, produced on spikes 2 cm long at the top of slender, leafless stems 10-30 cm (4-12 in) long; each flower is subtended by a bract 4-8 mm long. At the top of the spike are a number of much larger, sterile bracts (no flowers between them), 10-50 mm long and bright lavender purple (rarely white).