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Trans Pecos Sea Lavender

Limonium limbatum Small

Description

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Leaves all in basal rosettes, living at anthesis, 10-25 cm; petiole nar-rowly winged distally, 0.1-9 cm, shorter than blade; blade oblong-spatulate, obovate, or elliptic, 4-16 × 1.5-6.5 cm, leathery, base gradually tapered, margins entire, apex rounded or retuse, often short-cuspidate, cusp less than 1 mm; main lateral veins ascending, obscurely pinnate. Inflorescences: axes not winged, 30-60(-100) cm × 2-3 mm, glabrous; nonflowering branchlets absent; spikelets densely aggregated at tips of branchlets, internodes 0.5-3 mm; subtending bracts 1-5 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces and margins glabrous; flowers 1-3 per spikelet. Flowers: calyx whitish distally, with reddish brown ribs, obconic to slightly funnelform, 3.5-5 mm, ribs usually densely pubescent; tube ca. 3 mm; lobes spreading at maturity, 0.5-1.5 × 1-1.5 mm; petals blue to nearly white, not exceeding calyx. Utricles 2.5-3 mm.
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Flora of North America Vol. 5 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Okla., Tex.
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Flowering/Fruiting

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Flowering Jun-Aug.
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Habitat

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Wet meadows, gypsum soils, salt flats, alkaline depressions in the interior; 400-1800m.
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Synonym

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Limonium limbatum var. glabrescens Correll; Statice limbata (Small) K. Schumann
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Limonium limbatum

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Limonium limbatum, common names trans-pecos sea-lavender or desert sea-lavender, is a plant species native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma) and the Mexican State of Coahuila. Most of the 300 species of the genus are found on seashores and in marine salt marshes, but L. limbatum also grows on the shores of salt lakes and in alkaline depressions in desert areas, at elevations of 400–1800 m.[1][2][3]

Limonium limbatum is a perennial herb with a large taproot, producing a rosette of leaves that are still alive at flowering time. Leaves are up to 17 cm long, thick and leathery. Flowering stalk is up to 100 cm tall, not winged, bearing flowers with whitish sepals and blue petals.[1][4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b Flora of North America vol 5
  2. ^ Great Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains i–vii, 1–1392. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.
  3. ^ Discover Life, Missouri Botanical Garden Database, record MO02386435, Limonium limbatum in Coahuila
  4. ^ Small, John Kunkel. 1898. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 25(6): 317–318.
  5. ^ Schumann, Karl Moritz. 1900. Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. 26(1): 390.
  6. ^ Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
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Limonium limbatum: Brief Summary

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Limonium limbatum, common names trans-pecos sea-lavender or desert sea-lavender, is a plant species native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma) and the Mexican State of Coahuila. Most of the 300 species of the genus are found on seashores and in marine salt marshes, but L. limbatum also grows on the shores of salt lakes and in alkaline depressions in desert areas, at elevations of 400–1800 m.

Limonium limbatum is a perennial herb with a large taproot, producing a rosette of leaves that are still alive at flowering time. Leaves are up to 17 cm long, thick and leathery. Flowering stalk is up to 100 cm tall, not winged, bearing flowers with whitish sepals and blue petals.

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