Armeria vulgaris

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Read about Armeria vulgaris in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Armeria vulgaris, Willd. (A. maritima, Willd.). Common Thrift. Fig. 380. Lvs. linear, 1-nerved, somewhat obtuse, glabrous or slightly ciliate: scape low, somewhat villose; calyx-tube about the length of the pedicel and decurrent on it, the limb nearly equal to the tube, with very short ovate, blunt or aristate lobes. Eu. and Amer., along the seacoast. Var. alba, Hort. White. Var. rubra, Hort. Fls. dark rose-red. Var. purpurea, Hort. Purple-red. Var. Laucheana, Voss. Light rose-color. Var. grandiflora, Hort. Large-fld., light rose-red. Var. splendens, Hort. Bright pink. A. argentea. Hort., is perhaps another form, with small white fls.; also a white-lvd. form.


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