Limonium sinuatum(L.) Mill.

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WFO wfo-0000444086 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Limonium sinuatum, photographed by Tom Gulya
fig. a Tom Gulya, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201862435
Limonium sinuatum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198891185
Limonium sinuatum, photographed by jen
fig. c jen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198289570
Limonium sinuatum, photographed by Jacob Malcom
fig. d Jacob Malcom, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194168062
Limonium sinuatum, photographed by lazarus
fig. e lazarus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170916081
Limonium sinuatum, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. f Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 145536381
Limonium sinuatum, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. g Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126889397
Limonium sinuatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. h Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122920050

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Limonium sinuatum is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMauritaniaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpain Canary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Limonium sinuatum, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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 246 in flower of 256 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Limonium sinuatum 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. 246 of 256 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 13 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 africanum Mill.
  • Limonium sinuatum f. pallidum Maire
  • Limonium sinuatum subsp. sinuatum (L.) Mill.
  • Limonium sinuatum var. subglabrum (H.Lindb.) Maire
  • Limonium sinuatum var. typicum Maire
  • Linczevskia sinuata (L.) Tzvelev
  • Statice floribunda Lem. ex Huber
  • Statice hirsuta C.Presl
  • Statice sinuata L.
  • Statice sinuata var. candidissima hort.
  • Statice sinuata var. integrifolia Boiss.
  • Statice sinuata var. subglabra H.Lindb.
  • Taxanthema sinuata (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. 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.