Limonium carolinianum(Walter) Britton

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WFO wfo-0001095157 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. a Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 205047507
Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Quinn Shemet
fig. b Quinn Shemet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196429772
Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. c Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173650911
Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Lucian Vazquez
fig. d Lucian Vazquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171521490
Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Nina
fig. e Nina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168380325
Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Mary Spilman
fig. f Mary Spilman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166852361
Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. g Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163493424
Limonium carolinianum, photographed by Bex Goreham
fig. h Bex Goreham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160729792

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Limonium carolinianum is native: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Labrador, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mississippi, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Bermuda AlabamaConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaLabradorLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMexico NortheastMississippiNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNewfoundlandNorth CarolinaNova ScotiaPrince Edward I.QuébecSouth CarolinaTexasVirginia DelawareRhode I.Bermuda
Native distribution of Limonium carolinianum, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Labrador LAB
Louisiana LOU
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mississippi MSI
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
North Carolina NCA
Nova Scotia NSC
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
Bermuda BER SOUTHERN AMERICA

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 315 in flower of 366 examined

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Limonium carolinianum 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. 315 of 366 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 37 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.

  • Limonium angustatum (A.Gray) Small
  • Limonium augustatum (A.Gray) Small
  • Limonium carolinianum var. angustatum (A.Gray) S.F.Blake
  • Limonium carolinianum var. carolinianum (Walter) Britton
  • Limonium carolinianum var. compactum Shinners
  • Limonium carolinianum var. nashii (Small) B.Boivin
  • Limonium carolinianum var. obtusilobum (S.F.Blake) H.E.Ahles
  • Limonium carolinianum var. trichogonum (S.F.Blake) B.Boivin
  • Limonium endlichianum (Wangerin) S.F.Blake
  • Limonium lefroyi (Hemsl.) Britton
  • Limonium nashii Small
  • Limonium nashii f. albiflorum House
  • Limonium nashii var. angustatum (A.Gray) H.E.Ahles
  • Limonium nashii var. trichogonum S.F.Blake
  • Limonium obtusilobum S.F.Blake
  • Limonium trichogonum S.F.Blake
  • Limonium trichogonum f. albiflorum House
  • Statice angustata (A.Gray) Wangerin
  • Statice brasiliense var. angustata A.Gray
  • Statice brasiliense var. augustata A.Gray
  • Statice brasiliensis Chapm.
  • Statice brasiliensis A.Gray
  • Statice brasiliensis var. angustata A.Gray
  • Statice caroliniana Walter

and 13 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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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