Limonium_binervosum Knowpia

Rock sea-lavender
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Plumbaginaceae
Genus:	Limonium
Species:	L. binervosum
Binomial name
	Limonium binervosum; (G.E.Sm.) C.E.Salmon

Limonium binervosum, commonly known as rock sea-lavender,^[1] is an aggregate species in the family Plumbaginaceae.

Despite the common name, rock sea-lavender is not related to the lavenders or to rosemary but is a perennial herb with small violet-blue flowers with five petals in clusters.^[2]

Eight rock sea-lavenders are endemic to Britain and Guernsey^[3] and the taxonomy was reviewed in 1986 to include a range of subspecies.^[4]

Growing 10–70 cm tall from a rhizome, Limonium binervosum flourishes in saline soils, so are therefore common near the western coasts and in salt marshes, and also on saline, gypsum and alkaline soils such as found on Flat Holm island in Wales, UK

Subspecies edit

Limonium binervosum on Flat Holm island UK

Limonium binervosum subsp. anglicum
Limonium binervosum subsp. cantianum
Limonium binervosum subsp. saxonicum
Limonium britanicum subsp. britanicum
Limonium britanicum subsp. combense
Limonium binervosum subsp. pseudotranswallianum
Limonium dodartiforme
Limonium loganicum
Limonium recurvum

References edit

^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
^ Barnes, Richard (1979). Coasts and Estuaries. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. pp. 92–93.
^ "Limonium binervosum, Rock Sea Lavender". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2008-05-03. Guernsey web site accessed 2008-05-03
^ "Rock Sea-Lavender". Archived from the original on 2008-06-07. Retrieved 2008-05-03. Wirral web site accessed 2008-05-03