''Limonium narbonense'' is a species of

sea lavender ''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...

belonging to the family

Plumbaginaceae Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family. Most species in this family are perennial herbaceous plants, but a few grow ...

Synonyms

*''Limonium angustifolium'' (Tausch) Degen *''Limonium angustifolium'' (Tausch) Turrill *''Limonium serotinum'' (Rchb.) Erben, nom. illeg. *''Limonium serotinum'' (Rchb.) Pignatti *''Limonium vulgare subsp. angustifolium'' (Tausch) P. Fourn. *''Limonium vulgare subsp. serotinum'' (Rchb.) Gams *''Statice angustifolia'' Tausch *''Statice brunii'' Guss. *''Statice limonium subsp. aggregata'' (Rouy) Rouy *''Statice limonium subsp. angustifolia'' (Tausch) Rouy *''Statice limonium subsp. serotina'' (Rchb.) Nyman *''Statice serotina'' Rchb. Luirig.altervista
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Description

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''Limonium narbonense'' is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the height of about . The leaves are 12 to 30 inches long, lanceolate-spatulate, located in a basal rosette. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

is large, with only a few or absent sterile branches. The flowers are white to pale violet, with a calyx of about 5–7 mm. The flowering period extends from June to September.

Distribution and habitat

This species can be found in Southern Europe, North Africa and in Southwest Asia. It is a plant of Mediterranean coastal habitat such as beaches,

salt marsh A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is domin ...

es, and coastal prairie, and other sandy saline habitats.

Bibliography

*Conti F.,Abbate G.,Alessandrini A.,Blasi C., 2005 -An Annoted Checklist of the Italian Vascular Flora. Roma *Pignatti S. 1982 -Flora d'Italia. Bologna * Palop-Esteban, Segarra-Moragues J, González-Candelas F.

References

narbonense Taxa named by Philip Miller Flora of Lebanon {{Caryophyllales-stub