Limonium binervosum
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Rock Sea Lavender is the common name of an aggregate species Limonium binervosum, members of 120 species of flowers in the genus Limonium. The genus was formerly often known by the synonym Statice. They are also sometimes known as Marsh-rosemary and are members of the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae.
Despite the common name, Rock Sea Lavender is not related to the lavenders or to rosemary but is a perennial herb with small violet-blue flowers with five petals in clusters.[1].
Eight Rock Sea Lavenders are endemic to Britain and Guernsey[2] and the taxonomy was reviewed in 1986 to include a renge of sub-species[3].
Growing 10-70 cm tall from a rhizome Limonium binervosum flourishes in saline soils, so are therefore common near the western coasts and in saltmarshes, and also on saline, gypsum and alkaline soils such as as found on Flat Holm island in Wales, UK
[edit] Sub Species
- Limonium binervosum anglicum
- Limonium binervosum cantianum
- Limonium binervosum saxonicum
- Limonium britanicum britanicum
- Limonium britanicum combense
- Limonium binervosum pseudotranswallianum
- Limoium dodartiforme
- Limonium loganicum
- Limonium recurvum
[edit] References
- ^ Barnes, Richard (1979). Coasts and Estuaries. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, pp. 92-93.
- ^ http://web.guernsey.net/~cdavid/botany/files/limonium%20binervosum/index.html Guernsey web site accessed 2008-05-03
- ^ http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200029/745/content_0000643.html Wirral web site accessed 2008-05-03
