Family: Plumbaginaceae Limonium vulgare     *     Common Sea-lavender Flowering time: July - August. Perennial Habitat: Muddy salt-marshes on English and Welsh coasts, rare in Scotland, absent from Ireland. Arching spikes of lavender-blue flowers, denser than those of the very similar Lax-flowered Sea-lavender, L. humile. Basal rosettes of pinnately-veined leaves with a tiny spine at the tip. Flowering stalks 10-40cm tall. Foodplant for larvae of the micro moths Goniodoma limoniella and Agdistis bennetii and sometimes host to the fungal rust Uromyces limonii

Common Sea-lavender, Limonium vulgare
Studland, Dorset. September 2007