Rosemary vs. Lavender — What's the Difference?

Salvia rosmarinus, commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region. Until 2017, it was known by the scientific name Rosmarinus officinalis, now a synonym.

A small aromatic evergreen shrub of the mint family, with narrow leaves and bluish-purple flowers, used in perfumery and medicine.

An aromatic evergreen Mediterranean shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) in the mint family, having light blue or pink flowers and narrow grayish-green leaves that are used in cooking and perfumery.

A pale blue colour with a trace of mauve

The leaves of this plant used as a seasoning.

Perfume with lavender

A shrub, Salvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis), that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes.

Any of various aromatic plants of the genus Lavandula of the mint family, native chiefly to the Mediterranean region, especially L. angustifolia, having clusters of small purplish flowers. Lavender is widely cultivated as an ornamental and for its essential oil, used in perfumery and cosmetics.

A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.

The fragrant dried leaves, stems, and flowers of this plant.

Widely cultivated for its fragrant gray-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery

A pale to light purple to very light or very pale violet.

Extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats

Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.

(color) A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

(color) Having a pale purple colour.

(politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.

(politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism. en

(transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.

An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (Lavandula vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (Lavandula Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.

Any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated

Of a pale purple color