Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is a shrub 50-200 cm high. Young branches are blunt-faced, pubescent. Leaves are on very short petioles, evergreen, linear, dull at the end. The flowers are almost sessile; corolla is blue-violet, slightly pubescent outside; the fruit is a round-ovoid, smooth, brownish nut. Rosemary blooms in April - May. The fruits ripen in September.