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Matted Sea Lavender

Limonium bellidifolium

Matted Sea Lavender
Photo: Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0

Matted sea-lavender is a low perennial herb from European and southwest Asian saltmarshes, grown for its clusters of small lilac flowers. It needs full sun and well-drained, somewhat saline or sandy soil, and it dislikes waterlogging.

Family
Plumbaginaceae (Plumbagin family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately during growth and let the top of the soil dry between waterings; avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, well-drained soil; tolerates salt and alkalinity.
Temperature
Hardy in cold winters; protect pot-grown plants from prolonged frost below -10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Europe to Medit.
Climate
temperate

About

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 five petals in clusters. It occurs in the upper saltmarshes of Europe and southwest Asia and grows up to 30 cm tall from a rhizome.

Other Limonium plants

Limonium arboreum · Rock Sea Lavender · Algerian Statice · Limonium bourgeaui · Lavender thrift · Siberian Statice · Limonium minutum · Saltmarsh sea lavender · Perez's sea lavender · Florist's Sea Lavender · Limonium puberulum · Algerian sea lavender

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Limonium bellidifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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