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Leaves usually radical and tufted especially, in the herbaceous species, generally rather long, alternate along the st. in the shrubby species, linear, spatulate oblong or obovate, sometimes pinnatifid or dissected: fls. blue, lavender, white, red, or yellow, in little- or much-branched panicles, borne on a leafless peduncle or scape; bracts subtending the fl.-clusters scale-like, somewhat clasping, usually coriaceous on the back, and with membranous margins, usually with 1 or 2 fls. in their axils, sometimes with dense few- to several-fld. spikelets; calyx funnel-shaped, often colored, usually the showy part of the fl., and scarious or persistent.— About 180 species well scattered about the world, but mainly seacoast plants of the northern hemisphere and especially numerous in Asia. Limoniums are of easy cult. but prefer a rather deep, loose soil. From the delicate nature of the fl.-panicles the species are better suited to rock work and isolated positions than for mixing in a crowded border. Many of the species are useful for cut bloom, especially for mixing with other flowers. Some of the species are adapted to greenhouse culture, especially the shrubby forms.
Leaves usually radical and tufted especially, in the herbaceous species, generally rather long, alternate along the st. in the shrubby species, linear, spatulate oblong or obovate, sometimes pinnatifid or dissected: fls. blue, lavender, white, red, or yellow, in little- or much-branched panicles, borne on a leafless peduncle or scape; bracts subtending the fl.-clusters scale-like, somewhat clasping, usually coriaceous on the back, and with membranous margins, usually with 1 or 2 fls. in their axils, sometimes with dense few- to several-fld. spikelets; calyx funnel-shaped, often colored, usually the showy part of the fl., and scarious or persistent.— About 180 species well scattered about the world, but mainly seacoast plants of the northern hemisphere and especially numerous in Asia. Limoniums are of easy cult. but prefer a rather deep, loose soil. From the delicate nature of the fl.-panicles the species are better suited to rock work and isolated positions than for mixing in a crowded border. Many of the species are useful for cut bloom, especially for mixing with other flowers. Some of the species are adapted to greenhouse culture, especially the shrubby forms.
The following species are mentioned in the trade and belong in Limonium unless otherwise stated, but cannot be placed in the key or are of minor importance. — Statice altaica, Hort. ex Don, is unknown botanically, but is said to grow 2 1/2 ft. high and have purple or blue fls. July-Sept. — Statice Butcheri, Hort., is offered as having blue fls. — Statice coccinea, Hort., is offered in the trade as a perennial. Statice excelsa, Hort., is offered in the trade. — Limonium leptostachyum, Kuntze (Statice leptostachya, Boiss.), is a glabrous annual: lvs. linear in outline, pinnately parted; segms. linear: calyx-tube appressed-hirsute; corolla white. Persia. — Statice nana alba, Hort., is offered in the trade; possibly is a form of L. tataricum. — Statice penduliflora, Hort., is offered in the trade but is unknown botanically. — Statice spatulata, is offered by one firm as having ornamental green lvs. and purple-and- white fls., growing 1 ft. high, flowering July to Sept. and by a second firm as growing 1 1/2 ft. high, with very graceful sprays of blue fls. in July and Aug. — Not really possible to say with certainty what it is, perhaps L. binervosum.
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