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Lavender is a flower or grass?

Lavender is a fragrant purple flowers, also known as "quiet perfume plant", known as "the reputation of aromatic herbs", lavender is native to the Mediterranean region, such as Provence, France, is widely planted with the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. Lavender flower language is "fragrant" meaning, when you get to the lavender fields, often unknowingly attracted by its special aroma, so, lavender and "after the vanilla" said.

Lavender perennial herb or dwarf shrub, although called grass, is actually a purple-blue flowers. Lavender clusters, multi-branched, common for the upright growth, plant height according to the variety of 30 ~ 40 cm, 45 ~ 90 cm, in the mountainous areas at a fairly high altitude, a single plant can grow to 1 meter. Leaves alternate, elliptic lanceolate leaves, or leaf surface larger needle-shaped, leaf margin revolute. Spikes terminal, 15-25 cm long; corolla lower tube, upper lip-shaped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; flowers about 1.2 cm long, blue, deep purple, pink, white and other colors, common purple-blue, flowering period June-August. The whole plant has a light fragrance with a slightly woody sweetness, because the oil glands are hidden in the fluffy hairs on the flowers, leaves and stems, which rupture when gently touched to release the scent.

Native to the Mediterranean coast, Europe and the islands of Oceania, such as the town of Provence in southern France, and later widely planted in Britain and Yugoslavia. Xinjiang's northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains and France Provence is located in the same latitude zone, and similar climatic conditions and soil conditions, is a lavender planting base, is China's lavender hometown, Xinjiang's lavender has been included in the world's eight well-known varieties of one. Sex like dry, flower shape such as wheat spikes, with a slender stem, flowers covered with star-shaped hairs, the end of a small purple-blue flowers, long narrow leaves gray-green, adult plants can reach a height of 90cm, usually bloom in June. Whenever the flowers bloom and the wind blows, a whole field of lavender is like a deep purple wave undulating up and down, very beautiful.