Habit: (Annual) perennial herb, scapose; rhizome +- woody. Leaf: few to many; basal generally in rosette, oblanceolate to obovate, entire or lobed, generally petioled; cauline generally small, scale-like. Inflorescence: panicle, branched +- at plant base, flowers in sessile, 1--3(5)--flowered spike-like clusters, each 3-bracted at base, clusters evenly spaced along branches to crowded at branch tips. Flower: calyx funnel-shaped, base tubular, lobes generally fused, generally 5--10-ribbed, generally pink to blue; petals free, white to yellow or pale violet; styles 5, +- free.
Species In Genus: +- 300 species: +- worldwide, generally in saline soils. Etymology: (Greek: meadow, from habitat of many species) Note: Many cultivated species; those of Mediterranean origin potentially could escape and naturalize. Limonium arborescens Kuntze, illeg. may have been misappl. to the waif Limonium brassicifolium (Webb & Berthel.) Kuntze.
Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston & Elizabeth McClintock
Reference: Karis 2004 Biol J Linn Soc 144:461--482
Unabridged Reference: Kunkel & Sunding 1967 Cuad Bot 2:9--18; Pignatti 1972 Flora Europaea 3:38--50; Lledo et al. 2005 Amer J Bot 92: 1189--1198; Smith 2005 FNANM 5:606--611
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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List of species Limonium brassicifolium Limonium californicum Limonium duriusculum Limonium otolepis Limonium perezii Limonium preauxii Limonium ramosissimum Limonium sinuatum Limonium sventenii

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