''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin ', used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek ' (, ‘meadow’).

Distribution

The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa,

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. By far the greatest diversity (over 100 species) is in the area stretching from the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

east through the Mediterranean region to central Asia; for comparison, North America only has three native ''Limonium'' species.

Description

Sea-lavenders normally grow as

herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition of t ...

perennial plants, growing 10–70 cm tall from a

rhizome In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...

; a few (mainly from the Canary Islands) are woody

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

s up to 2 metres tall. Many species flourish in

saline Saline may refer to: * Saline (medicine), a liquid with salt content to match the human body * Saline water, non-medicinal salt water * Saline, a historical term (especially US) for a salt works or saltern Places * Saline, Calvados, a commune in ...

soils, and are therefore common near coasts and in salt marshes, and also on saline, gypsum and

alkaline In chemistry, an alkali (; from ar, القلوي, al-qaly, lit=ashes of the saltwort) is a base (chemistry), basic, ionic compound, ionic salt (chemistry), salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. An alkali can also be defined as ...

soils in continental interiors. The

leaves A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", wh ...

are simple, entire to lobed, and from 1–30 cm long and 0.5–10 cm broad; most of the leaves are produced in a dense basal rosette, with the flowering stems bearing only small brown scale-leaves (

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s). The flowers are produced on a branched

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

or corymb, the individual flowers are small (4–10 mm long) with a five-lobed

calyx Calyx or calyce (plural "calyces"), from the Latin ''calix'' which itself comes from the Ancient Greek ''κάλυξ'' (''kálux'') meaning "husk" or "pod", may refer to: Biology * Calyx (anatomy), collective name for several cup-like structures ...

and

corolla Corolla may refer to: *Corolla (botany), the petals of a flower, considered as a unit *Toyota Corolla, an automobile model name * Corolla (headgear), an ancient headdress in the form of a circlet or crown * ''Corolla'' (gastropod), a genus of moll ...

, and five

stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filame ...

s; the flower colour is pink or violet to purple in most species, white or yellow in a few. Many of the species are

apomictic In botany, apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization. Its etymology is Greek for "away from" + "mixing". This definition notably does not mention meiosis. Thus "normal asexual reproduction" of plants, such as propagation from cuttin ...

. The fruit is a small capsule containing a single seed, partly enclosed by the persistent calyx.

Features

Several species are popular garden flowers; they are generally known to gardeners as ''statices''. They are grown both for their flowers and for the appearance of the

, which remains on the plant after the true flowers have fallen, and are known as "everlasting flowers".

Species

There are between 120-150 species in the genus, many of them local endemic species with a very restricted range. Species not given a common name here are generally referred to simply as "sea-lavender", "statice," or "marsh-rosemary". *''

Limonium aragonense ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' ( Monegros, endemic) *'' Limonium arboreum'' (tree limonium or ''Statice arborca''; Tenerife, endemic) *''

Limonium aureum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumba ...

'' (central Asia: Siberia, Mongolia, northwest

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) *''

Limonium auriculaeursifolium ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Alderney sea-lavender; southwest Europe, northwest Africa) *''

Limonium australe ''Limonium australe'' is a species of sea lavender known by the common name native sea lavender. It is native to Australia, where it is known to inhabit saltmarshes and mud flats along the eastern coast from northern Tasmania to Mackay Mackay m ...

'' (

) *''

Limonium bellidifolium ''Limonium bellidifolium'', commonly known as the matted sea-lavender, is an aggregate species in the family Plumbaginaceae. Despite the common name, matted sea-lavender is not related to the lavenders, but is a perennial herb with flowers with ...

'' (matted sea-lavender; Europe, southwest Asia) *''

Limonium bicolor ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Mongolia, northwest China) *'' Limonium binervosum'' (rock sea-lavender; western Europe) *''

Limonium bourgaei ''Limonium bourgeaui'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. A herbaceous perennial and subshrub, it is morphologically similar to but genetically distinct from ...

'' (

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, endemic) *''

Limonium brassicifolium ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Canary Islands, Statice brassicifolia) *''

Limonium braunii ''Limonium braunii'' is a species of flowering plants of the family Plumbaginaceae. The species is endemic to Cape Verde.Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 : Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales T ...

'' (Cape Verde) *''

Limonium brunneri ''Limonium brunneri'' is a species of flowering plants of the family Plumbaginaceae Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbag ...

'' (Cape Verde) *''

Limonium caesium ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western Mediterranean) *''

Limonium californicum ''Limonium californicum'' is a species of sea lavender in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is known by the common names western marsh rosemary and California sea lavender. Description This is a tough perennial herb growing from a woody rhizome. Th ...

'' (California sea-lavender; western

, Oregon to Baja California) *''

Limonium callianthum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western China: Xinjiang) *''

Limonium cancelatum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumba ...

'' (eastern Mediterranean Croatia) *''

Limonium carolinianum ''Limonium carolinianum'', known variously as Carolina sealavender, canker root, ink root, marsh root, lavender thrift, American thrift, or seaside thrift, is a species of flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fru ...

'' (Carolina sea-lavender; eastern North America,

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to Bermuda, Florida and Tamaulipas;

syn. The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnae ...

''L. angustatum, L. nashii'') *''

Limonium caspium ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Europe east to central Asia) *''

Limonium chrysocomum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium confusum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western Mediterranean) *''

Limonium congestum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium coralloides ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumba ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium cordatum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Mediterranean) *''

Limonium cosyrense ''Limonium cosyrense'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to Malta and Pantelleria Pantelleria (; Sicilian: ''Pantiddirìa'', Maltese: ''Pantellerija'' or ''Qawsra''), the ancient Cossyra or Cossura, is an ...

'' (eastern Mediterranean) *''

Limonium delicatulum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western Mediterranean) *''

Limonium dichroanthum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium dielsianum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western China:

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, Qinghai) *''

Limonium dregeanum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Natal statice; South Africa) *''

Limonium echioides ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Mediterranean) *''

Limonium emarginatum ''Limonium emarginatum'' is a species of sea lavender known by the common names Gibraltar sea lavender.Gibraltar Fauna
, ...

'' (southern Iberia, northern Morocco) *''

Limonium ferulaceum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western Mediterranean) *'' Limonium flexuosum'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium franchetii ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (east coastal China) *''

Limonium fruticans ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Tenerife, endemic) *''

Limonium gmelinii ''Limonium gmelini'', the Siberian statice, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to east-central and southeastern Europe, Russia, the north Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, parts of Siberia, Xinjiang ...

'' (eastern Europe, northern Asia, Siberia) *''

Limonium gougetianum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western Mediterranean) *'' Limonium humile'' (lax-flowered sea-lavender; northwest Europe) *''

Limonium imbricatum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Tenerife, endemic) *''

Limonium insigne ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (southeast Spain, endemic) *''

Limonium jovibarba ''Limonium jovibarba'' is a species of flowering plants of the family Plumbaginaceae. The species is endemic to Cape Verde.Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 : Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales ...

'' (Cape Verde) *''

Limonium kaschgaricum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium iranicum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Iran) *''

Limonium lacostei ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western China, Tibet,

Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

) *''

Limonium leptolobum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium leptostachyum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumba ...

'' (statice; central Asia) *''

Limonium lilacinum ''Limonium lilacinum'' is a Turkish species of flowering plant that usually occurs in central Anatolia. ''Limonium lilacinum''s local name in Turkey is "camel ear" or "barren lavender". ''Limonium lilacinum'' is a member of ''Limonium'', the most ...

'' (central Turkey, endemic) *''

Limonium limbatum ''Limonium limbatum'', common names trans-pecos sea-lavender or desert sea-lavender, is a plant species native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma) and the Mexican State of Coahuila. Most of the 300 species ...

'' (Transpecos sea-lavender; interior southwest United States) *'' Limonium lobinii'' (Cape Verde) *''

Limonium macrophyllum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Tenerife) Limonium scabrum00

*''

Limonium macropterum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Canary Islands) *''

Limonium macrorhabdos ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' ( Ladakh) *''

Limonium melitensis ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' ( Malta) *''

Limonium minutum ''Limonium minutum'', the dwarf statice, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to the Balearic Islands. A halophyte found in coastal habitats, it is occasionally available from commercial suppliers. References

...

'' (southeast France, endemic) *''

Limonium mouretii ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' ( Morocco) *''

Limonium multiflorum Limonium multiflorum is a species of sea-lavender endemic to central-west Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of ...

'' (western Portugal, endemic) *''

Limonium myrianthum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium narbonense ''Limonium narbonense'' is a species of sea lavender belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae. Synonyms *''Limonium angustifolium'' (Tausch) Degen *''Limonium angustifolium'' (Tausch) Turrill *''Limonium serotinum'' (Rchb.) Erben, nom. illeg. *'' ...

'' (Southern Europe, North Africa, Southwest Asia) *''

Limonium nashii ''Limonium carolinianum'', known variously as Carolina sealavender, canker root, ink root, marsh root, lavender thrift, American thrift, or seaside thrift, is a species of flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fru ...

'' (Maritime North America) *''

Limonium ornatum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Morocco) *''

Limonium otolepis ''Limonium otolepis'', the saltmarsh sea lavender, lacy sea lavender or Asian sea lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is native to Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Xinjiang and western Gansu in China. A haloph ...

'' (Saltmarsh sea-lavender; southwest and central Asia) *''

Limonium paradoxum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' ( Great Britain, Ireland,Flora Europaea
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Limonium paulayanum ''Limonium paulayanum'' is a species of plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial ...

'' ( Yemen, endemic) *''

Limonium pectinatum ''Limonium pectinatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to the Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archi ...

'' (Canary Islands) *''

Limonium peregrinum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (South Africa) *'' Limonium perezii'' (Perez's sea-lavender; Canary Islands) *''

Limonium platyphyllum ''Limonium platyphyllum'', the broad-leaved statice, or florist's sea lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is native to the Black Sea region; Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Crimea, south and east European Russia ...

'' (German statice; central and southeast Europe) *''

Limonium potaninii ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western China: Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu) *''

Limonium preauxii ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Canary Islands) *''

Limonium puberulum ''Limonium puberulum'', the downy sea lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to subtropical elevations of Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the ...

'' (Canary Islands) *''

Limonium ramosissimum ''Limonium ramosissimum'', the Algerian sea lavender, is a species of sea lavender (''Limonium'') native to the Mediterranean region. Its specific epithet means "many-branched" in Latin. Ecological characteristics As a halophyte, ''Limonium r ...

'' (Mediterranean) *''

Limonium reniforme ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (kidneyleaf sea-lavender; Iran) *''

Limonium rezniczenkoanum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (central Asia) *''

Limonium scabrum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumba ...

'' Kuntze (South Africa) *''

Limonium sieberi ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumba ...

'' (eastern Mediterranean) *''

Limonium sinense ''Limonium sinense'' is a species of flowering plant in the sea lavender genus ''Limonium'', family Plumbaginaceae, native to coastal China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, and Vietnam. It is a perennial reaching , found on sandy, salty shales next t ...

'' (eastern Asia coasts: China, Ryukyu Islands, Vietnam) *''

Limonium sinuatum ''Limonium sinuatum'', commonly known as wavyleaf sea lavender, statice, sea lavender, notch leaf marsh rosemary, sea pink, is a Mediterranean plant species in the family Plumbaginaceae known for its papery flowers that can be used in dried arran ...

'' (wavyleaf sea-lavender; Mediterranean) *''

Limonium sokotranum ''Limonium sokotranum'' is a species of plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial ...

'' ( Yemen, endemic) *''

Limonium solanderi ''Limonium solanderi'' is a species of sea lavender ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to th ...

'' (

) *''

Limonium spathulatum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Mediterranean) *''

Limonium spectabile ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Canary islands) *''

Limonium strictissimum ''Limonium strictissimum'' is a species of plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is found in France and Italy. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed ...

'' (Mediterranean: France, Italy) *''

Limonium suffruticosum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (western and central Asia) *''

Limonium tenellum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Mongolia, northwest China) *''

Limonium tetragonum ''Limonium tetragonum'', the square-stalked sea lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is native to Primorsky Krai in Russia, South Korea, central and southern Japan, the northern Ryukyu Islands, and New Caledo ...

'' (autumn statice or square-stem statice; eastern Asia south to

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) *''

Limonium thouinii ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' (Mediterranean) *''

Limonium tomentellum ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

'' ( Black Sea region) *''

Limonium virgatum ''Limonium virgatum'' is a species of plants in the family Plumbaginaceae Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family. M ...

'' (western Mediterranean) *'' Limonium vulgare'' (common sea-lavender; western Europe, northwest Africa) *''

Limonium wrightii ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumba ...

'' (

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, Taiwan) *''

Limonium zeraphae Limonium zeraphae is a species of plants in the family Plumbaginaceae (leadworts). It is endemic to Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It con ...

'' (Malta) Some species formerly included in ''Limonium'', e.g. ''L. tataricum'', have now been transferred to the separate genus ''

Goniolimon ''Goniolimon'', sometimes called the statices, are a genus of flowering plants in the leadwort and plumbago family Plumbaginaceae, native to northern Africa, southern Europe, western and central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia and China. Low-lying peren ...

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German Statice Flower
{{Authority control Caryophyllales genera Halophytes Taxa named by Philip Miller