Armeria maritima(Mill.) Willd.

Sea Thrift

WFO wfo-0000549005 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Armeria maritima, photographed by Nico
fig. a Nico, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 204181457
Armeria maritima, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. b Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204501775
Armeria maritima, photographed by Loopy30
fig. c Loopy30, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204289012
Armeria maritima, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. d Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203678810
Armeria maritima, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. e Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203769424
Armeria maritima, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. f Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203755653
Armeria maritima, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. g Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203086175
Armeria maritima, photographed by Rob Pople
fig. h Rob Pople, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202688232

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Flowering n = 2,594 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 2,594 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 176 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Androsace macloviana Cham.
  • Armeria alpina Turcz.
  • Armeria alpina subsp. barcensis (Simonk.) Jáv.
  • Armeria alpina var. purpurea (W.D.J.Koch) E.Baumann
  • Armeria ambifaria Focke
  • Armeria andina var. californica Boiss.
  • Armeria arctica (Cham.) Wallr.
  • Armeria arctica subsp. californica (Boiss.) Abrams
  • Armeria arctica var. californica (Boiss.) S.F.Blake
  • Armeria armeria (L.) H.Karst.
  • Armeria baltica Tzvelev
  • Armeria barcensis Simonk.
  • Armeria campestris Wallr.
  • Armeria campestris subsp. kochii Wallr.
  • Armeria campestris var. hoffmannii Wallr.
  • Armeria campestris var. linkii Wallr.
  • Armeria duriuscula Bab.
  • Armeria elongata (Hoffm.) M.Loehr
  • Armeria elongata (Hoffm.) W.D.J.Koch
  • Armeria elongata Hoffm.
  • Armeria elongata (Hoffm.) W.D.J.Koch
  • Armeria elongata f. rostellata Szafer
  • Armeria elongata var. intermedia T.Marsson
  • Armeria elongata var. maritima (Mill.) Skottsb.

and 152 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.