Lavandula angustifolia is a compact, bushy shrub to 1 metre tall, with narrow, aromatic, grey-green leaves. It produces long, unbranched stalks carrying short, dense spikes of fragrant, pale to deep purple flowers.

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Usually found as an escape from cultivation and often close to habitation.

Flowers in mid and late summer.

Perennial.

A thin scattering of records for this plant as an escape from cultivation from across Britain.

Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.