The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to LIMONIUM

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Leaf pinnately lobed; inflorescence axis wings 3–5, very narrow, rough-hairy
L. sinuatum
  1' Leaf ± entire or wavy-margined; inflorescence axis wings 0 or 2, wide, glabrous
 
    2. Inflorescence with some non-flower branches
L. otolepis
    2' Inflorescence without non-flower branches
 
      3. Inflorescence > 1 m, axes winged
L. arborescens
      3' Inflorescence < 1 m, axes not winged
 
        4. Leaf blade obovate to oblong, base tapered; calyx lobes white
L. californicum
        4' Leaf blade round to wide-ovate, base ± truncate; calyx lobes blue-purple
L. perezii


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