Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Close up of French / Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) Monfrague National Park, Extremadura, Spain, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Close up of French / Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) Monfrague National Park, Extremadura, Spain, March 2009

Oriol Alamany / Cork Oak (Quercus suber) amid blooming Spanish Lavender (Lavanda stoechas) and White Asphodel (Asphodelus albus) in sierra de las Corchuelas, Monfrague National Park, Caceres, Extremadura, Spain, Apri...

Juan Carlos Munoz / Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas). Faia Brava Reserve, Archaeological Park of the Coa Valley, Western Iberia, Portugal. April.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) with El Yelmo and La Pedriza in background. Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Spain. May, 2017.

Loic Poidevin / Landscape with wild Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) Extremadura, Spain. April 2015.

MYN / Eduardo Blanco / French lavender (Lavandula stoechas), Villarroya forest, La Rioja, Spain, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

Wild Wonders of Europe / Muñoz / French lavender (Lavandula stoechas) in flower, Campanarios de Azaba Biological Reserve, a rewilding Europe Area, Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Spanish oil beetle (Berberomeloe majalis) or 'The Spanish Fly', in Dehesa forests on French lavender (Lavandula stoechas) in Campanarios de Azaiba Nature Reserve, Salamanca Region, Castilla y Leon, Sp...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Close up of French / Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) Monfrague National Park, Extremadura, Spain, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Flowering French / Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) La Serena, Extremadura, Spain, April 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Flowering French / Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) growing in rock strewn landscape, La Serena, Extremadura, Spain, April 2009