LEADWORT FAMILY 
( PlumbaginaGece) 
Seaside plants with perfect, regular flowers in 1-sided 
racemes or spikes; 5-parted and with plaited calyx. 
Marsh Rosemary; Sea Lavender (Limonium caro- 
linianum) is a very characteristic plant of the sea¬ 
shore; it is found very commonly in salt marshes along 
the Atlantic coast from Labrador to Florida, and along 
the Gulf to Texas. 
The plant has a thick, woody, very astringent root, 
from which grows a single naked stalk. This stem di¬ 
vides into numerous branches and branchlets, all desti¬ 
tute of leaves and spreading out so that the appearance 
of the whole plant is that of a very diminutive tree. 
The leaves all radiate from the root at the base of the 
flower stalk; they are spatulate-sliaped, thick, almost 
smooth-edged, and are on long stems. 
At the end of each branclilet is a slender, 1-sided ra¬ 
ceme of tiny buds. From July until September these 
open out into tiny lavender flowers with five tiny petals, 
each coming from a 5-toothe^, ribbed calyx. 
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