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§1 Plant
Limonium carolinianum (Walter) Britton
vernacular lavender thrift — species · Plumbaginaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Plumbaginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Limonium
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 123 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -8 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Blue
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 600,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 123 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gulf 12045
- Hernando 12053
- Indian River 12061
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 8 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 14 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LICA17 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3082300 ↗Record version
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