Is lavender a flower or grass?

Lavender is a kind of fragrant purple floret, also known as "quiet perfume plant" and "fragrant herb". Lavender originated in the Mediterranean region, such as Provence, France, and was widely cultivated in Britain and Yugoslavia. The flower language of lavender means "fragrance". When you go to the lavender field, you are often unconsciously attracted by its special fragrance, so lavender is also called "after vanilla".

Lavender perennial herb or shrub, although called grass, is actually a purple-blue flower. Lavender is clustered and branched, usually growing vertically. According to different varieties, the plant height is 30 ~ 40 cm and 45 ~ 90 cm. In mountainous areas with quite high altitude, a single plant can grow to1m. Leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, or large needle-shaped, and the leaf margin rolls back. Spike terminal, 15 ~ 25 cm long; Corolla lower tubular, upper lip-shaped, upper lip 2-cleft, lower lip 3-cleft; The flowers are about 1.2 cm long and have blue, deep purple, pink, white and other colors. The common color is purple-blue, and the flowering period is from June to August. The whole plant has a faint aroma with a slight woody sweetness. Because the villi on flowers, leaves and stems contain oil glands, they will burst when touched lightly and release fragrance.

Islands native to the Mediterranean coast, Europe and Oceania, such as Provence town in southern France, are widely cultivated in Britain and Yugoslavia. The northern foot of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang is at the same latitude as Provence in France, with similar climate and soil conditions. It is a lavender planting base and the hometown of lavender in China. Lavender in Xinjiang has been listed as one of the eight famous varieties in the world. Like to do it. These flowers are spike-shaped and have slender stems. The flowers are covered with star-shaped fine hairs, with purple-blue florets at the tip and gray-green narrow leaves. These plants can reach a height of 90 cm and usually bloom in June. Whenever the wind blows, a whole lavender field fluctuates like a deep purple wave, which is very beautiful.