Common Name: LEADWORT FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub [vine]. Leaf: simple, generally in basal rosette (cauline), entire or lobed. Inflorescence: raceme, cyme, or panicle (head-like in Armeria), generally scapose. Flower: bisexual, radial, generally small; calyx tubular, generally membranous or partly scarious, lobes 5, persistent; petals 5, +- free to +- fused, clawed, +- intertwined; stamens 5, opposite petals, occasionally epipetalous; ovary superior, generally 5-lobed or -ribbed, chamber and ovule 1, styles 5, occasionally fused. Fruit: utricle, achene, or capsule, +- enclosed in calyx. Genera In Family: 27 genera, +- 1000 species: +- worldwide, especially Mediterranean, western and central Asia. Note: Some cultivated as ornamental (Limonium used as dried flower). eFlora Treatment Author: Robert E. Preston & Elizabeth McClintock Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: SEA-LAVENDER, MARSH-ROSEMARY 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. 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. 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
Limonium perezii (Stapf) F.T. Hubb.
NATURALIZED Habit: Erect, 15--45 cm. Leaf: petiole >= blade; blade 4--15 cm, 2.5--7 cm wide, round to wide-ovate, +- entire, margin ciliate with simple to 3-branched hairs, base +- truncate, tip long-acuminate. Inflorescence: winged; clusters 2-flowered, crowded in terminal 1--3 cm of branch tips; flower bracts 2--5 mm, proximal awned, distal rounded, margins ciliate. Flower: calyx +- 10 mm, blue-purple, tube short-stiff-hairy; corolla > calyx, white. Ecology: Disturbed coastal areas, cliffs, sand dunes, roadsides; Elevation: < 100 m. Bioregional Distribution: SW (exc SnJt); Distribution Outside California: native to Canary Islands. Flowering Time: Mar--Sep Unabridged Synonyms: Statice perezii Stapf Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston & Elizabeth McClintock Reference: Karis 2004 Biol J Linn Soc 144:461--482 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Limonium otolepis Next taxon: Limonium preauxii
Citation for this treatment: Robert E. Preston & Elizabeth McClintock 2012, Limonium perezii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=31022, accessed on February 06, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on February 06, 2025.
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