Limonium perezii (Stapf) F.T. Hubbard
Sea lavender, Perez’s sea lavender, seafoam statice
Perez’s sea lavender is native to the Canary islands, but popular with gardeners and naturalized along the California coast.
Plants: Herbaceous perennial up to 3′ (1 m) in size.
Leaves: A basal rosette. Leaves are thick, somewhat wavy, oval to round, up to 1½–6 ⨉ ⅞–2½″ (4–15 ⨉ 2.5–7 cm). Each leaf’s petiole (stem) is longer than the leaf.
Flowers: A multiply-branched panicle 6–18″ (15–45 cm) in size. Each flower has lavender [Glosssary(sepals)] and white petals. Branchlets supporting flowers are winged. Each flower has a funnel-shaped blue-purple calyx with a deep purple center ⅜″ (1 cm) in size, and a white flower. From a distance, the blue-purple color dominates. Flowers appear from March to September.
Fruits: Inconspicuous.
Habitats: Disturbed coastal areas, cliffs, sand dunes, and roadsides, at elevations below 328′ (100 m).
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Two sea-lavenders (Limonium species), easily distinguished by their ranges. |
Online References:
Statice perezii Stapf
2/24/2010 · Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad, California · ≈ 1½ × 1′ (43 × 33 cm) 
2/24/2010 · Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad, California · ≈ 7 × 7″ (18 × 17 cm) 
2/28/2010 · Bob and Celete’s, Carlsbad, California · ≈ 6 × 4″ (16 × 10 cm) 
2/24/2010 · Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad, California · ≈ 9 × 6″ (22 × 14 cm) 
2/24/2010 · Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad, California · ≈ 8 × 6″ (19 × 15 cm) 
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
| Class | Magnoliopsida | Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves |
| Subclass | Caryophyllidae | Cacti, many other succulents, carnivorous plants, and leadworts |
| Order | Plumbaginales | A relatively small order of shrubby or herbaceous plants |
| Family | Plumbaginaceae | Includes the leadwort and plumbago families |
| Genus | Limonium | from the ancient Greek name Leimonion, supposedly from leimon, “a marsh” (ref. genus Limonium) |
| Species | perezii | after Jorge Victor Perez (1869-1920), a physician and horticulturist from the Canary Islands (ref. Limonium perezii) |
Limonium perezii description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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