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Limonium carolinianum
Also called Sea-lavendar, Carolina sea-lavender, Carolina sealavender, Canker root, Ink root, Marsh root, American thrift
Lavender thrift is a perennial salt-marsh plant native to North American coasts, grown for its papery pink-lavender flower sprays used in cut arrangements. It thrives in full sun and tolerates salty, wet soil that would stress most garden plants.
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 native to the eastern shores of North America, from northern Mexico to Canada. It is a slow-growing perennial herb found in salt marshes and other maritime habitats. Its inflorescences are frequently harvested for use in cut flower arrangements.
Limonium arboreum · Matted Sea Lavender · Rock Sea Lavender · Algerian Statice · Limonium bourgeaui · 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 carolinianum 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.
