Limonium scabrum(Thunb.) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0001095199 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Limonium scabrum, photographed by linkie
fig. a linkie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 195436915
Limonium scabrum, photographed by sharndreheuvel
fig. b sharndreheuvel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195376791
Limonium scabrum, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. c Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191807085
Limonium scabrum, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. d Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196945551
Limonium scabrum, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. e Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190441390
Limonium scabrum, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. f Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180675171
Limonium scabrum, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. g Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181102285
Limonium scabrum, photographed by flamelily
fig. h flamelily, CC0 1.0 / obs. 176372092

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Limonium scabrum is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Limonium scabrum, 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
Cape Provinces CPP 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.

Flowering 105 in flower of 114 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Limonium scabrum 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. 105 of 114 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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 5 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 scabrum var. scabrum (Thunb.) Kuntze
  • Statice cinerea Poir.
  • Statice scabra Drege ex Boiss.
  • Statice scabra Thunb.
  • Taxanthema scabra (Thunb.) 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.

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.