Limonium carolinianum (Walter) Britton
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Plumbaginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Taprooted, mostly 2–7 dm tall; lvs firm, glabrous, the blade mostly elliptic to obovate, spatulate, or oblanceolate and 1–4(–7) cm wide; infl ± widely branched above the middle, with a few scale-like bracts; fls in small, sessile, secund clusters; cal scarcely surpassing the bracts, mostly (4–)5–6(–7) mm including the narrow, white, ca 1 mm lobes, glabrous or in ours more often ± strigose, especially on the nerves below; cor lavender, about equaling or a little shorter than the cal. Salt marshes along the coast; Lab. to ne. Mex. July–Sept. (L. nashii)