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Limonium tetragonum
Square Stem Statice is a biennial coastal halophyte from salt marshes and high tide zones in East Asia and New Caledonia, grown for its sea lavender flowers and eaten as a wild vegetable. Give it full sun, sharp drainage and salt tolerance, and it is best treated as a short-lived plant.
Limonium tetragonum, the square-stalked sea lavender, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is native to Primorsky Krai in Russia, South Korea, central and southern Japan, the northern Ryukyu Islands, and New Caledonia some 6,800 km (4,200 mi) away. A biennial halophyte, it can be found growing at the high tide line in coastal wetlands and in salt marshes. It is collected in the wild and eaten as a vegetable, and is considered to have medicinal properties. There appears to be an ornamental cultivar, 'Confetti'.
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 · Limonium puberulum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Limonium tetragonum 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.
