Seasonal Wild Flowers

Rock Sea-lavender

Limonium binervosum agg.

Plumbaginaceae

July to September

It is patchily scattered round the coast, and is most common in

the Southwest and least common in the Northeast.

See the BSBI distribution map for Rock Sea-lavenders

Rock Sea-lavenders grow on sea cliffs, sea walls, saltmarshes

and shingle. They are a group of 9 species plus subspecies, some

of which are highly localised.

Rock Sea-lavenders are native, perennial herbs growing in large

patches and up to 50cm high.

The flowers are violet blue, up to 8mm, in arching spikes.

They are smaller than in Common Sea-lavender.

Leaves are fleshy and variable in size - from 2 to 12cm long and

broad.

Flowering stems are more branched than in Common Sea-lavender.

Rock Sea-lavender, West Bay, Dorset

View from edge of colony

Flower spikes

Close-up of flower - stamens

Leaves

Branched stems