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  • COMMON NAME: Lavander
  • ARABIC: مغزغاز، صومر، حرق
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Lavandula subnuda Benth.
  • SYNONYMS: Lavandula bipinnata var. subnuda (Benth.) Kuntze
  • FAMILY: LAMIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/l/lamiaceae/lavandula/lavandula-subnuda https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34448755 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
The plant has been known in folk medicine for a long time, as it was and still is used for diseases of the chest, throat and epilepsy. The plant is generally used as a tonic, anti-toxin, antispasmodic, body coolant and antiseptic. used to relive headache. Insect repellent. The decoction of the plant is used alone or mixed with other plants to treat intestinal and infectious diseases, and Dukhona is used for rheumatic diseases, and inhaled to treat the sinuses. Honey nectar plants.

Perennial herb, woody base, stems angular, green and erect, up to 120 cm, much branched. Leaves sparse, opposite. Lower leaves narrow to 4 cm, with 2 - 5 deeply serrated and pointed lobes; almost leafless except young plants which display vigorous basal growth. Inflorescence spike, terminal, bracts ovate with a spinescent tip, flowers inconspicuous on elongated leafless spikes, aromatic, bluish white or liliac. Fruit small nut with a red winged persisting perianth. Flowering from January-May, October-December.

mountain slopes and hillsides.
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