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A wild rockery shrub, rosemary, from the Lamiaceae family, can reach 2 m in height when cultivated. It is easily recognizable all year round, growing among Mediterranean bushes: its evergreen leaves are curled at their edges. They are much longer than they are wide, dark green in color, shiny on their upper surface and whitish on the underside. Its flowers, most often a purplish-blue tint (white ones are rarer), are gathered in short clusters from February to May. Their calyx has a downy appearance, the corolla is bilabiate and has four stamens, two of which protrude beyond the upper lip. The fruit of rosemary, globose in shape, is a brown tetrachene.