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Armeria maritima

California thrift, sea thrift, sea-pink, thrift, thrift seapink
Leaf

blades 1–15 cm × 0.5–3 mm, base 1- or ± 3-veined, faces glabrous or hairy.
Scapes

erect, 2–60 cm, glabrous or hairy.
Inflorescences

involucral sheath 5–32 mm;

outermost involucral bract ovate to triangular-lanceolate, 4–14 mm, shorter than, equaling, or exceeding head, mucronate or not;

heads 13–28 mm diam.
Flowers

monomorphic, with all stigmas papillate and pollen reticulate, or dimorphic, with papillate stigmas and finely reticulate pollen or smooth stigmas and coarsely reticulate pollen;

calyx tube hairy on and between ribs (holotrichous), on ribs only (pleurotrichous), or glabrous (atrichous);

teeth triangular to shallowly triangular, awned or not;

corolla pink to white;

petals showy and exceeding calyx or reduced and included in calyx.
Rootstock

erect.
2n

= 18.

Armeria maritima
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; CO; OR; WA; BC; MB; NT; NU; ON; SK; YT; Eurasia
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Discussion

Subspecies 10 (4 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Flowers dimorphic, papillate stigmas associated with finely reticulate pollen and smooth stigmas associated with coarsely reticulate pollen
subsp. maritima
1. Flowers monomorphic, stigmas all papillate with coarsely reticulate pollen
→ 2
2. Inflorescence sheath lengths usually 0.75 times diam. of flower heads; outer involucral bracts almost equaling or exceeding flower head; scapes glabrous; calyces hairy on ribs
subsp. californica
2. Inflorescence sheath lengths usually 0.5-0.75 times diam. of flower heads; outer involucral bracts 0.5-0.75 times flower head; scapes glabrous or hairy; calyces hairy throughout, on ribs only, or glabrous
→ 3
3. Calyces hairy throughout or on ribs only; scapes glabrous or hairy; leaf blades hairy or glabrous
subsp. sibirica
3. Calyces glabrous; scapes glabrous; leaf blades glabrous
subsp. interior
Source FNA vol. 5, p. 604.
Parent taxa Plumbaginaceae > Armeria
Subordinate taxa
A. maritima subsp. californica, A. maritima subsp. interior, A. maritima subsp. maritima, A. maritima subsp. sibirica
Synonyms Statice maritima
Name authority (Miller) Willdenow: Enum. Pl. 1: 333. (1809)
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