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Limonium
Limonium is a genus of about 600 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 Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin ', used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek ' (, 'meadow').
Acantholimon
Acantholimon (prickly thrift) is a genus of small flowering plants within the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae. They are distributed from southeastern Europe to central Asia, and also cultivated elsewhere in rock gardens.
Armeria
Armeria is a genus of flowering plants. These plants are sometimes known as ''lady's cushion, thrift, or sea pink (the latter because as they are often found on coastlines). The genus counts over a hundred species, mostly native to the Mediterranean, although Armeria maritima'' is an exception, being distributed along the coasts of the Northern Hemisphere, including Ireland, parts of the United Kingdom such as Cornwall, and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales.
Plumbago
Plumbago is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. Common names include plumbago and leadwort (names which are also shared by the genus Ceratostigma).
Ceratostigma
Ceratostigma (;), or leadwort, plumbago, is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. Common names are shared with the genus Plumbago.
Goniolimon
Goniolimon, sometimes called the statices, are a genus of flowering plants in the leadwort and plumbago family Plumbaginaceae, native to northern Africa, southern Europe, western and central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia and China. Low-lying perennial shrubs, some species are cultivated as ground covers.
Aegialitis
Aegialitis is a genus of two shrubby mangrove species, with one native to Southeast Asia and the other native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Limoniastrum
Limoniastrum is a genus of plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, containing two known species of subshrubs found the Mediterranean region, within Africa and southern Europe.
Cephalorhizum
Cephalorhizum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.
Psylliostachys
thumb | 220x124px | right | Psylliostachys suworowii Psylliostachys is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.
Dictyolimon
Dictyolimon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.
Plumbagella
Plumbagella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae. The only species is Plumbagella micrantha.
Saharanthus
Saharanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae. The only species is Saharanthus ifniensis.
Ceratolimon
Ceratolimon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.
Neogontscharovia
Neogontscharovia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.
Myriolimon
Myriolimon is a genus of flowering plants in the plumbago family, Plumbaginaceae. It includes two species native to the western and central Mediterranean Basin, including Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sicily, Tunisia, and former Yugoslavia. Myriolimon diffusum – France, Portugal, and Spain Myriolimon ferulaceum – Algeria, Balearic Islands, France, Morocco, Portugal, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia, and former Yugoslavia
Ikonnikovia
Ikonnikovia is a genus in the family Plumbaginaceae, containing only the species Ikonnikovia kaufmanniana, native to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Xinjiang in Central Asia.
Limoniopsis
Limoniopsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.