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Limonium puberulum

Limonium puberulum
Photo: Keops29, CC BY-SA 4.0

Limonium puberulum, the downy sea lavender, is a small perennial shrub-like plant from the dry, rocky slopes of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. It needs full sun, very good drainage and little water to thrive.

Family
Plumbaginaceae (Plumbagin family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; avoid wet roots.
Soil
Gritty, free-draining mix such as cactus or sandy soil with added grit.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Canary Is. (Lanzarote, Fuerteventura)
Climate
subtropical

About

Limonium puberulum, the downy sea lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to subtropical elevations of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. It is morphologically similar to but genetically distinct from Limonium bourgeaui.

Other Limonium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Limonium puberulum 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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