Carried by 9 nurseries
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Limonium californicum is a species of sea lavender known by the common names western marsh rosemary and California sea lavender. It is native to western North America from Oregon to Baja California, with occasional sightings in Nevada and Arizona. It is a plant of coastal habitat such as beaches, salt marshes, and coastal prairie, and other sandy saline and alkaline habitat such as playas. This is a tough perennial herb growing from a woody rhizome. The thick, leathery leaves are oval in shape and up to about 30 centimeters long including the petioles, located in a basal rosette about the stem. The flower cluster is a stiff, branching panicle no more than about 35 centimeters tall bearing large clusters of flowers. The flowers have brownish white ribbed sepals and lavender to nearly white petals.
Perennial herb
1 - 2 ft Tall
1 - 2 ft Wide
Mounding, Spreading
Fast
Evergreen
Blue, Lavender, White, Brown
Summer, Fall
Containers, Water features or wet habitats
Full Sun
Low, Moderate
Keep moist
Moderate
Tolerates cold to 25 - 30° F
Fast, Medium, Slow, Standing
Adaptable. Tolerates saline soil..
5, 15, 16, 17*, 21, 22*, 23*, 24*
Salt marshes, beaches and bays
Coastal Salt Marsh, Coastal Strand, Wetland-Riparian
Broadleaf Cattail (Typha latifolia), Southern Cattail (Typha domingensis), Alkali Bulrush (Bolboschoenus maritimus), Saltgrass (Distichlis spicata), Marsh Gumplant (Grindelia stricta var angustifolia), Fleshy Jaumea (Jaumea carnosa), Alkali Heath (Frankenia salina)
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 2 likely
Sunflower Moth
Homoeosoma electella
Celery Leaftier
Udea rubigalis