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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is the lavender country on record: the Valensole plateau, the Verdon and the Asse valley. Fine lavender is cut from mid-June to early July on the Valensole plateau and from July to mid-August higher up; lavandin follows at Valensole from about 10 July to the end of July.

Its growers created the AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence » in 1981 to mark out their fine lavender. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the department, not a field, and the clock beside it is local time.

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Place
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

the place name as the harvest globe’s data spells it; the Wikidata item is Q3131 (the department)

confidence A

Region
the Valensole plateau, the Middle and Upper Verdon and the Asse valley (La Mure-Argens, Barrême, Castellane)
documented · 2018

Dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, et en particulier sur le plateau de Valensole, dans le Moyen- et Haut-Verdon et la vallée d’Asse (La Mure-Argens, Barrême, Castellane), où les enquêtes à l’appui de cette fiche d’inventaire ont été menées, la récolte de la lavande englobe aussi bien celle du lavandin et de la lavande fine que celle de la lavande aspic.

HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30

the areas of the 2018 fieldwork; fine lavender is cultivated above 800 m inside the AOC area (HV-4)

confidence A

Country
France
documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Coordinates
44.09528, 6.24 (a representative point for the department (Wikidata P625), not a field)
documented

Wikidata Q3131 (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) P625

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Time zone
Europe/Paris
documented

FR +4852+00220 Europe/Paris

TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); pu · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Traditions
the growers of fine lavender created the AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence » in 1981, to mark out and have their products recognised
documented · 2018

Dans les années 1980, les cultivateurs de lavande fine se regroupèrent et créèrent une AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence », en 1981, afin de se démarquer et de faire reconnaître les propriétés de leurs produits.

HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Harvest, as a source states it
  • Lavandula angustifolia Mill.: July to mid-August at altitude (Argens, Castellane)
    documented · HV-4

    the sentence says « la lavande », which the fiche uses generically; at Argens the crop is fine lavender (HV-4)

    confidence A

  • Lavandula angustifolia Mill.: Mid-June to early July on the Valensole plateau
    documented · HV-4

    the first half of the sentence (« la lavande, plus précoce que le lavandin »: fine lavender, set against lavandin)

    confidence A

  • Lavandula angustifolia x intermedia Emeric ex Loisel: From about 10 July to the end of July on the Valensole plateau
    documented · HV-4

    the second half of the same sentence; the harvest globe’s data’s windows list carries fine lavender only

    confidence A

Grows here
Harvest and processing here
  • cutting of the flowering stems (harvest): the shears cut the plant at the stems, above the leaves; the cut lavender is left to pre-wilt before distillation
    documented

    Les cisailles coupent la plante au ras des tiges, avant les feuilles.

    HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30

    pre-wilting: “Elle est aussi mise à pré-faner afin d’obtenir une huile essentielle moins riche en alpha-terpinéol, et donc de meilleure qualité.” (HV-4, quote 10)

    confidence A

    record

Films and plates

  • OR-3 · lavender: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-3 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
    the ground texture (a render input only): "Gravelly Sand", Dario Barresi (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

Claims register

Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.

  • softened · Harvest mid-June to mid-August, by altitude (was: Harvest · July · 1,000m+ Altitude)
    documented · register row 1454

    HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30

    corrected 2026-09-27 to the Ministry of Culture record (register: “July–August · high plateaux”); the page now reads mid-June to mid-August, the union of HV-4’s two windows

    where the site says it: /materials, “Lavandula angustifolia”

    confidence A

  • verified · is cultivated above 800 m on the limestone plateaux of Haute-Provence, inside the AOC area (was: grows only above 800 meters altitude in the limestone hills of Haute-Provence)
    documented · register row 2266

    HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30

    softened by the house’s review (no source then). HV-4, re-read 2026-09-30, says fine lavender is cultivated “au-dessus de 800 m dans le périmètre de l’AOC” (HV-4): the figure could return with that source (main’s call); “only” and “best” stay unsourced. the house’s review (2026-09-30, the copy pass): the 800 m figure restored with HV-4 (HV-4); “only” and “best” stay off the page

    where the site says it: /materials, “Lavandula angustifolia”

    confidence A

  • verified · Altitude: Above 800 m (the AOC area) (was: Altitude (premium): 800m–1,500m)
    documented · register row 2268

    HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30

    HV-4 gives 600–1700 m for wild fine lavender and cultivation above 800 m in the AOC area; the old “800m–1,500m (premium)” range matches neither and had no source. the house’s review (2026-09-30, the copy pass): the facts row now reads “Above 800 m (the AOC area)” with HV-4 (HV-4)

    where the site says it: /materials, “Lavandula angustifolia”

    confidence A

  • verified · Mid-June to early July on the Valensole plateau; July to mid-August higher up (Ministry of Culture record) (was: Harvest: July, mid-morning)
    documented · register row 2271

    HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30

    the house’s review 2026-09-27 sourced it to HV-4 (register: “June–August on the high plateaux”); the page’s current wording, above, gives the two windows separately

    where the site says it: /materials, “Lavandula angustifolia”

    confidence A

Sources

  1. HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C. (anthropologist), “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche d’inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Ministère de la Culture (France), fiche no. 2018_67717_INV_PCI_FRANCE_00418, ARK ark:/67717/nvhdhrrvswvk2ml, submitted 12 December 2018 (fieldwork February–August 2018). www.culture.gouv.fr/Media/Thematiques/Patrimoine… · read 2026-09-30
  2. GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia article of each place; wbgetentities API, read 2026-09-27. Values rounded to 5 decimals by the fetch script; representative points (city, region or country centroid), not field locations. www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&… · read 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata data licence)
  3. TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); public domain. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/zone.tab · read 2026-09-27 · public domain

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this record as data: /data/origin/alpes-de-haute-provence-fr.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A