Limonium perezii |
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Canarian sea lavender, Perez's sea lavender |
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Leaves | all in basal rosettes, living at anthesis, to 30 cm; petiole winged distally, to 18 cm, usually exceeding blade; blade round to broadly ovate or subcordate, to 15 × 9 cm, leathery, base subtruncate (abruptly narrowed) and then decurrent, margins entire, apex cuspidate, cusp to 5 mm, soon falling; main lateral veins pinnate. |
Inflorescences | axes not winged, to 100 cm × 7 mm, glabrous to puberulent (hairs ca. 0.1 mm); nonflowering branches absent; spikelets moderately to densely aggregated at tips of branches, internodes mostly 2–4 mm; subtending bracts 3–6 mm, acute or aristate (outer) to truncate (inner), ciliate or fimbriate at margins, surfaces glabrous or minutely appressed-pubescent; flowers 1–2 per spikelet. |
Flowers | calyx blue-purple in distal 1/2, with reddish brown, glabrous ribs, funnelform; tube ca. 5 mm, minutely pubescent along proximal end of ribs (hairs less than 0.1 mm); lobes spreading, ca. 5 mm (5 main lobes with shallower lobes between larger lobes), or lobes indistinct and calyx appearing erose or irregularly lobed at mouth; petals whitish, barely exceeding calyx. |
Utricles | 4–5 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Limonium perezii |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Sep. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal areas, cliffs, sand dunes, roadsides (where it is sometimes planted) |
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands) [Introduced in North America]
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 608. |
Parent taxa | Plumbaginaceae > Limonium |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Statice perezii |
Name authority | (Stapf) F. T. Hubbard: Rhodora 18: 158. (1916) |
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