Common name:
Common sea-lavender
Family:
Scientific name:
Limonium vulgare
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered coastal areas of England, Wales and southwest Scotland
Height:
Up to 30 cm
Habitat:
Saltmarshes
Flowers:
Flowers have five pale purple petals, five exserted stamens with yellow anthers, and five thin styles. The inflorescence is an array of dense, branched clusters, flat-topped or somewhat rounded; each cluster is subtended by a pair of greenish-brown bracts
Leaves:
Hairless, grey-green, oblanceolate to elliptic, smoothly tapering at the base and with a small spike at the tip. Up to 12 cm long
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
