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Limonium
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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').
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Limonium is a genus of plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, within the order Caryophyllales. It belongs to the class Magnoliopsida and the phylum Tracheophyta. The name derives from the Greek word leimon, meaning meadow. Commonly referred to as sea-lavenders, the genus has an accepted taxonomic status and was described by P. Miller in 1754.
The habitat for this genus includes marine and brackish environments. Limonium has been introduced to Austria, Mexico Central, Mexico Southwest, and Washington. Records of the genus are present in the United States, Spain, Morocco, Canada, and Mexico. Institutions holding records include those in GA, NY, MICH, Western Connecticut State University, and IBUNAM.
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Species
sea-lavenders
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyPlumbaginaceae
General: Limonium (from Gr. λειμών, leimon, meadow).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,439
- With media
- 733
- Family
- Plumbaginaceae
- Collections
- GA, NY, MICH, WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, IBUNAM
- Recorded in
- United States, Spain, Morocco, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Tunisia, Austria
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Encyclopedic overview
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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').
==Distribution== The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia. By far the greatest diversity (over 100 species) is in the area stretching from the Canary Islands east through the Mediterranean region to central Asia; for comparison, North America only has three native Limonium species.
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