5-616: Everlasting may refer to: Everlastings (or everlasting daisies , or paper daisies ), species in a group of genera in the family Asteraceae, including; Plants in the genus Limonium (family Plumbaginaceae ), in particular Limonium perezii , are referred to as everlastings in South Africa. Limonium About 600 species; see text Limonium is a genus of about 600 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender , statice , caspia or marsh-rosemary . Despite their common names, species are not related to
10-844: Is in the area stretching from the Canary Islands east through the Mediterranean region to central Asia; for comparison, North America only has three native Limonium species. Sea-lavenders normally grow as herbaceous perennial plants , growing 10–70 cm tall from a rhizome ; a few (mainly from the Canary Islands) are woody shrubs up to 2 metres tall. Many species flourish in saline soils, and are therefore common near coasts and in salt marshes , and also on saline, gypsum and alkaline soils in continental interiors. The leaves are simple, entire to lobed, and from 1–30 cm long and 0.5–10 cm broad; most of
15-661: The lavenders or to rosemary . They are instead in Plumbaginaceae , the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin līmōnion , used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek leimon ( λειμών , 'meadow'). The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia. By far the greatest diversity (over 100 species)
20-401: The leaves are produced in a dense basal rosette , with the flowering stems bearing only small brown scale-leaves ( bracts ). The flowers are produced on a branched panicle or corymb , the individual flowers are small (4–10 mm long) with a five-lobed calyx and corolla , and five stamens ; the flower colour is pink or violet to purple in most species, white or yellow in a few. Many of
25-442: The species are apomictic . The fruit is a small capsule containing a single seed , partly enclosed by the persistent calyx. Several species are popular garden flowers; they are generally known to gardeners as statices . They are grown both for their flowers and for the appearance of the calyx , which remains on the plant after the true flowers have fallen, and are known as "everlasting flowers". There are about 600 species in
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