Limonium limbatum

Limonium limbatum, common names trans-pecos sea-lavender or desert sea-lavender, is a plant species native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma) and the Mexican State of Coahuila. Most of the 300 species of the genus are found on seashores and in marine salt marshes, but L. limbatum also grows on the shores of salt lakes and in alkaline depressions in desert areas, at elevations of 400–1800 m.[1][2][3]

Limonium limbatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Plumbaginaceae
Genus: Limonium
Species:
L. limbatum
Binomial name
Limonium limbatum
Synonyms
  • Limonium limbatum var. glabrescens Correll
  • Statice limbata (Small) K. Schum.

Limonium limbatum is a perennial herb with a large taproot, producing a rosette of leaves that are still alive at flowering time. Leaves are up to 17 cm long, thick and leathery. Flowering stalk is up to 100 cm tall, not winged, bearing flowers with whitish sepals and blue petals.[1][4][5][6]

References
  1. Flora of North America vol 5
  2. Great Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains i–vii, 1–1392. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.
  3. Discover Life, Missouri Botanical Garden Database, record MO02386435, Limonium limbatum in Coahuila
  4. Small, John Kunkel. 1898. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 25(6): 317–318.
  5. Schumann, Karl Moritz. 1900. Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. 26(1): 390.
  6. Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
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