Limoniastrum monopetalum(L.) Boiss.

WFO wfo-0000444468 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. a Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198590888
Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by John Lyden
fig. b John Lyden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179409180
Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by Riccardo Guarino
fig. c Riccardo Guarino, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176563821
Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. d Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165132435
Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161273018
Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146317328
Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. g Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138206802
Limoniastrum monopetalum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137862297

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Limoniastrum monopetalum is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Sinai, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaSinaiFranceGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpain Sardegna
Native distribution of Limoniastrum monopetalum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
France FRA EUROPE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Sinai SIN ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 221 in flower of 231 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Limoniastrum monopetalum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 221 of 231 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Bubania monopetala (L.) Girard
  • Limoniastrum articulatum Moench
  • Limoniastrum majus Lanza
  • Limoniastrum monopetalum subsp. multiflorum Bonhomme & P.Fourn.
  • Limoniastrum multiflorum C.Bonhomme & P.Fourn.
  • Limoniodes monopetalum Kuntze
  • Limonium monopetalum (L.) Hill
  • Limonium siculum Mill.
  • Statice denudata Regel & Körn.
  • Statice monopetala L.
  • Statice scabra Pers.
  • Taxanthema monopetala (L.) Sweet

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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