Desert lavender

Learn to garden and grow organically in the low desert. Tips, tricks, and growing guides custom tailored to Zone 9.

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Hyptis emoryi. Desert Lavender. Non-native evergreen. Fragrant, great nectar source for pollinators. Medicinal (tea leaves). Best at elevations below 3000 ft. Full sun. Fast grower.

Highly adapted to hot desert climates, Condea emoryi (Desert Lavender) is a pleasantly fragrant, multi-stemmed evergreen shrub boasting silvery gray, rounded leaves with scalloped and toothed edges. A profusion of tiny blue-violet flowers packed into short terminal and axillary spikes are on display from mid-winter to late spring. Desert Lavender emits a wonderful lavender fragrance when brushed or following rains.

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Desert Lavender is a 4 to 6 foot tall by 5 foot wide shrub that grows in the sandy washes and canyons of the South Mojave and Sonoran deserts. It has numerous erect slender branches bearing small, velvety slate blue-grey leaves. The leaves will become smaller and greyer, or even deciduous, in dryer conditions. Desert Lavender usual blooms from spring through summer, but may also bloom throughout the year. The flowers are violet in color and appear in clusters on branch tips. The foliage has…

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Purple wildflowers of western USA: Hyptis emoryi, desert lavender: A large shrub producing elongated clusters of two-lipped purple flowers; all parts densely hairy

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