Limonium brassicifolium

Family: Plumbaginaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Sea lavender is a naturalized perennial found in southern coastal California in disturbed areas and coastal lagoons at elevations below 15 meters. Flowering in February, this plant produces white flowers with blue-purple calyx lobes in small, crowded clusters at branch tips. Growing 20 to 60 centimeters tall with erect stems, it develops a distinctive winged inflorescence with wings 5 to 20 millimeters wide. Its leaves are large and obovate, measuring 8 to 35 centimeters long and 3.5 to 12 centimeters wide, with pinnate lobing near the base and petioles 4 to 6 centimeters long.

Habitat: Uncommon; disturbed areas, coastal lagoons

Bloom period: Feb

Elevation: < 15 m

Bioregions: SCo

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