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Armeria maritima is the botanical name for a species of flowering plant. It is a popular garden flower, known by several common names, including "thrift", "sea thrift", and "sea pink".
The plant has been distributed worldwide as a garden and cut flower. It does well in gardens designed as xeriscapes or rock gardens. If planted in its native coastal strand, this plant needs no supplementary irrigation after established. Plant in full sun, in well draining soils or in cliffs or rock walls. Often short lived away from cool seashore conditions since supplementary watering will often rot centers of plants.
Perennial herb
6 - 12 in Tall
4 - 12 in Wide
Upright, Mounding, Rounded
Moderate
Evergreen, Summer Deciduous
Purple, Pink
Spring
Containers, Deer resistant
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moderate
Max 2x / month once established
Easy
Tolerates cold to 20 - 30° F
Fast
Well draining clay or sand soil, clay or rock cliffs.
Tolerates saline soil..
Soil PH: 4 - 10
Prune back dead folliage and deadhead in spring.
For propagating by seed: No treatment.
Ocean bluffs, ridges, strand, sand, exposed grassy places
Closed-cone Pine Forest, Northern Coastal Scrub
Giant Coreopsis (Leptosyne gigantea), Bluff Lettuce (Dudleya farinosa),Coast Dudleya (Dudleya caespitosa), Seaside Fleabane (Erigeron glaucus), Coast Eriogonum (Eriogonum latifolium), Pink Sand Verbena (Abronia umbellata), Gumweed (Grindelia stricta var platyphylla)