Limonium binervosum

Taxobox
name = Rock Sea Lavender

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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Plumbaginaceae
genus = "Limonium"
species = "L. binervosum"
binomial = "Limonium binervosum"

"Limonium binervosum", commonly known as the Rock Sea Lavender, is an 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. ["cite book | last = Barnes | first = Richard | title = Coasts and Estuaries | publisher = Hodder & Stoughton Ltd | date = 1979 | pages = pp. 92-93 ] .

Eight Rock Sea Lavenders are endemic to Britain and Guernsey [http://web.guernsey.net/~cdavid/botany/files/limonium%20binervosum/index.html Guernsey web site accessed 2008-05-03] and the taxonomy was reviewed in 1986 to include a range of subspecies [http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200029/745/content_0000643.html Wirral web site accessed 2008-05-03] .

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

ubspecies

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

References

External links

* [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/plants-fungi/postcode-plants/checklist-british-endemic-plants.html List of UK endemic plants]
* [http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/L/Limonium_binervosum.asp Description of "Limonium binoversum"]
* [http://www.ukbap.org.uk/UKPlans.aspx?ID=412 UK biodiversity action plan for "Limonium binoversum"]
* [http://www.searchnbn.net/gridMap/gridMap.jsp?allDs=1&srchSpKey=NHMSYS0000523253 Grid map of records on the Gateway for "Limonium binervosum"]
* [http://www.irishwildflowers.ie/pages/452a.html Rock sea lavenders in Ireland]