Annuals Dictionary: Limonium
Plumbago family
Plumbaginaceae
Ly-mo’ni-um. Sea Lavender ; Sea Pink . About 150 species, several widely grown for cutting and for dried flowers.
Description
Leaves mostly basal, often tufted. Flowers small, numerous, in open, loose panicles or in branching spikes, prevailingly lavender, rose-pink, or bluish, but sometimes yellow or white. Calyx tubular, often membranous or colored. Corolla of 5 nearly separate and often clawed petals.
How to Grow
Start indoors in peat pots 8 weeks before last spring frost. Difficult to transplant unless plants are small. They prefer somewhat sandy soil and warm weather.
Limonium sinuatum
Statice . 12-30 in. (30-75 cm) high. Flowers blue, lavender, rose, red, salmon, yellow, or white, ? in. (9 mm) wide, in panicles of 3- to 5-winged branches. Mediterranean to Asia Minor. Many hybrids available. Biennial grown as a tender annual.