{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "lavandula-angustifolia",
 "type": "Botanical",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "HV-4"
 ],
 "latin_name": {
  "value": "Lavandula angustifolia Mill.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:35",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "La lavande fine (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) pousse à une altitude comprise entre 600 et 1700 m d’altitude sur un sol calcaire.",
  "date": "2018-12-12"
 },
 "common_name": {
  "value": "fine lavender (lavande fine)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:35",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "La lavande fine (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) pousse à une altitude comprise entre 600 et 1700 m d’altitude sur un sol calcaire.",
  "date": "2018-12-12"
 },
 "family": {
  "value": "Lamiaceae (lamiacées)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:32",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "Poussent sous un climat méditerranéen sur un milieu dégradé et sur l’adret (face sud), les lavandes sont issues de la famille botanique des lamiacées (comme la sauge, le thym, la sarriette, l’origan, la menthe et l’hysope).",
  "date": "2018-12-12",
  "note": "the fiche says it of “les lavandes”, the genus as it treats it"
 },
 "part_used": {
  "value": "the flowering stems, cut above the leaves",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:56",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "Les tiges fleuries sont déversées au pied des cuves de distillation (ill. 4) pour y être enfournées à l’aide de fourches.",
  "date": "2018-12-12",
  "note": "and the cutting: “Les cisailles coupent la plante au ras des tiges, avant les feuilles” (docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:50)"
 },
 "cultivars": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no cultivar is named in the filed sentences"
 },
 "origins": [
  {
   "origin": "alpes-de-haute-provence-fr",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HV-4",
   "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:47",
   "quote": "La lavande fine est cultivée en altitude, au-dessus de 800 m dans le périmètre de l’AOC créée en 1981.",
   "confidence": "A"
  },
  {
   "origin": "grasse-fr",
   "evidence": "inferred",
   "source": "HV-4",
   "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:14",
   "quote": "En altitude, comme à Argens ou Castellane (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) ou à Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes), la lavande est récoltée sur une période plus longue, du mois de juillet jusqu'à la mi-août.",
   "note": "the sentence says « la lavande », which the fiche uses generically (p. 2); which lavender grows at Grasse is not stated",
   "confidence": "C"
  }
 ],
 "materials": [
  {
   "material": "lavender-essential-oil",
   "extraction": "steam-distillation"
  }
 ],
 "media": [
  "spec-lavender",
  "or-3-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-lavender",
  "card": "/materials#naturals"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Lavandula angustifolia Mill., fine lavender, grows at altitude on limestone in Haute-Provence. Its flowering stems are cut above the leaves, left to wilt, and steam-distilled for the essential oil.",
  "body": [
   "The French heritage record puts it in the family Lamiaceae, gives it 600 to 1700 m in the wild, and has it cultivated above 800 m inside the AOC area created in 1981. Lavandin, its hybrid with spike lavender, is on record beside it."
  ]
 }
}