Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Limonium australe var. australe

Flowering stems. Photographer Richard Hartland, Inverloch

Flowering plant. Photographer Jackie Miles

Line drawings. g. plant; h. flower. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Native sea lavender, Yellow sea-lavender

Family

Plumbaginaceae

Where found

Coastal salt marshes and margins of tidal streams.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.45 m high. Flowering stems ridged or angular, hairless. Leaves in a basal rosette, 3–15 cm long, 8–30 mm wide, hairless, margins entire, often wavy. Flowers with 5 yellow petals fused shortly at the base, longer than the calyx. Calyx white to pink, 6–8 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, 5-ridged. Flowers in open branched clusters. Sub-clusters 2- or 3-flowered. Flowers mainly Jan.–Apr. 

Limonium australe in PlantNET.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Limonium~australe (accessed 19 April 2021)