Category: Rarium | Sub-Category: Pots/Garden (overwinter indoors)
Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Limonium minutum
Family: (Plumbaginaceae)
(TP) to 6″. Miniature Statice. Southeastern France. A small, tufted, woody species from the Mediterranean regions. The red-tinged, slender leaves are obovate to spathulate, with recurved margins and form a dull green, cushion-like mass of rosettes. Sprays of small, lavender, five-lobed, trumpet-shaped, “everlasting” flowers are held in bunches on wiry branched stems. Endearing. June. This mini-gem turns a bright plum-purple in fall. Sun. 3 & T2, cover and keep dark.
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