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The Genus Limonium in Brief
The genus Limonium is consists of 120 species. The members of
Limonium are also known as Sea Lavender or Statice. Limonium is
in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. Despite their
common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rose-
mary. The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia and North America. By far the greatest diver-
sity (over 100 species) is in the area stretching from Canary Islands
east through the Mediterranean region to central Asia. Sea-
lavenders normally grow as herbaceous perennial plants, growing
10-70 cm tall from a rhizome; a few (mainly from the Canary Is-
lands) are woody shrubs up to 2 meter tall. Many species flourish in
saline soils, and are therefore common near coasts and in salt
marshes, and also on saline, gypsum and alkaline soils in continen-
tal interiors.
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