Limonium meyeri(Boiss.) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0000444571 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 4 separate observations

Limonium meyeri, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. a Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-19 / obs. 115549764
Limonium meyeri, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. b Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115400089
Limonium meyeri, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. c Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115534983
Limonium meyeri, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. d Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114635044

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Limonium meyeri is native: Egypt, Cyprus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Krym, Ukraine EgyptCyprusIranKazakhstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanBulgariaKrymUkraine
Native distribution of Limonium meyeri, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Krym KRY
Ukraine UKR
Egypt EGY AFRICA

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 92 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.2 °C -0.1 °C 1.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.2 °C 26.8 °C 31.3 °C
Annual rainfall 355 mm 485 mm 702 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 56 mm 90 mm 138 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 92 research-grade observations of Limonium meyeri that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 20 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 gmelini f. laxiflorum C.E.Salmon
  • Limonium gmelini var. meyeri C.E.Salmon
  • Limonium neoscoparium Klokov
  • Limonium obovatum (Ledeb.) Kuntze
  • Limonium scoparium Klokov
  • Limonium scoparium (M.Bieb.) Stankov
  • Limonium scoparium (Pall. ex Willd.) H.Arnaud
  • Limonium scoparium var. meyeri (Boiss.) Tzvelev
  • Limonium tanaiticum Gamajun.
  • Statice gmelini subsp. scoparia Wangerin
  • Statice gmelini var. grandis Popov ex Andross.
  • Statice gmelini var. laxiflora Boiss.
  • Statice gmelinii subsp. scoparia Trautv.
  • Statice gmelinii var. laxiflora Boiss.
  • Statice laxiflora (Boiss.) Novopokr.
  • Statice meyeri Boiss.
  • Statice obovata Ledeb.
  • Statice scoparia M.Bieb.
  • Statice scoparia C.A.Mey. ex Boiss.
  • Statice scoparia Pall. ex Willd.

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.

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.