Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Packsaddle, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Northampton, WA

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Packsaddle, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Packsaddle, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Northampton, WA

Common Name

Winged Sea Lavender

Family

Plumbaginaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 1m tall. Leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant, 3-20cm long, 10-50mm wide, hairless, lobed, with hairs on the margins, with blunt ends with a straight point. Flowering stems three winged. Flowers tubular, with  5 cream to yellow lobes and pale mauve, pale blue, or whitish papery sepals, clustered in 1-2 rows subtended by leaf like bracts along and at the tops of the stems.

Description and photo  (as Limonium thouinii) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 547

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Limonium~lobatum