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Limonium perezii (Stapf) F.T.Hubb. ex L.H.Bailey

Canary Sea Lavender, Perez's sea lavender, Perez's sea lavender (EN); Perez' Strandflieder (DE); Siempreviva de Masca (ES)

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Summary

Limonium perezii is a species of Limonium known by the common names Perez's sea lavender and seafoam statice. It is also known as simply statice, sea lavender or marsh rosemary. It is native to the coasts of the Canary Islands but are widely used in gardens throughout the world.

Text from Wikipedia, “Limonium perezii”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Limonium

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 the lavenders or to rosemary. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Limonium”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Plumbaginaceae
Described by
(Stapf) F.T.Hubb. ex L.H.Bailey
Native to
Canary Is.
Wild records
3 in range· 1 open

At a glance

Warmest month
23°C
Aug, mean day; nights 20 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
692mm/yr
7 wet months · peak Dec 163 mm (CHELSA)
Light
21–49DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a winter growing season, November to March in the northern hemisphere (November to March at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 692 mm a year, wettest December at 163 mm, driest July at 2 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 21 to 49 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 12.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Limonium perezii (Stapf) F.T.Hubb.; Statice perezii Stapf.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a winter growing season, November to March in the northern hemisphere (November to March at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the year's rain (559 mm of 692 mm) falls in November to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 15.7 °C against a yearly mean of 17.6 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: May to September.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 692 mm a year, wettest December at 163 mm, driest July at 2 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

692 mm a year at the habitat, 559 mm of it November to March. Wettest month December at 163 mm, driest July at 2 mm; 2 months under 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 288 mm to 735 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 21 to 49 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 21 to 49 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 19, the highest 90th-percentile month 50).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 12.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 12.3 °C, the absolute minimum 10.6 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 23.5 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 13.7 °C in February (across the envelope cells 10.7 °C to 14.9 °C), warmest day 22.9 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 12.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 62% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 16 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Aug; mean night from 14 °C in Feb to 20 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Jan to Mar, is the three months around the coldest night. 692 mm of rain a year, most in Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 3 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 10.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 23.5 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°15°20°25°23.5° 99th-percentile day (undated)10.6° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 21–49RH 54–62 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 3 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C16 / 14–1616 / 14–1617 / 15–1717 / 15–1718 / 17–1820 / 20–2122 / 22–2323 / 23–2322 / 21–2221 / 19–2119 / 17–1917 / 15–18
Night °C14 / 11–1514 / 11–1514 / 11–1514 / 12–1615 / 13–1717 / 16–1919 / 18–2120 / 19–2120 / 18–2118 / 16–2017 / 14–1815 / 12–16
Rain mm93 / 41–101100 / 45–10891 / 34–9736 / 14–3810 / 4–124 / 2–52 / 1–25 / 2–610 / 5–1266 / 28–71112 / 44–118163 / 68–164
DLI23 / 22–2529 / 28–3137 / 36–3843 / 42–4447 / 45–4849 / 46–5048 / 46–4945 / 43–4538 / 38–4031 / 30–3324 / 23–2621 / 19–23
RH %59 / 57–6059 / 56–6158 / 54–6060 / 57–6460 / 56–6659 / 52–6954 / 44–6855 / 46–6859 / 53–6761 / 58–6560 / 58–6262 / 60–62

Each figure is the median across the 3 grid cells holding the 3 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1233:3262 (28.325, -16.875). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 10.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 12.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 23.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 3 distinct grid cells holding the 3 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1233:3262 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 28.50_-16.875, lapse-corrected +427 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 565 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCanary Is.· introduced: California, Mexico Northwest
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 321 km away. 1311 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map and the climate as indicative.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Limonium perezii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Salinity Effects on Emergence, Survival, and Ion Accumulation of Limonium perezii
C. T. Carter, C. M. Grieve, J.A. Poss (2005) · Journal of Plant Nutrition
Productivity and Mineral Nutrition of Limonium Species Irrigated with Saline Wastewaters
C. M. Grieve, J.A. Poss, S.R. Grattan, P. J. Shouse (2005) · HortScience
Production of inter-specific hybrids between Limonium perezii (Stapf) Hubb. and Limonium sinuatum (L.) Mill
E.R. Morgan, G. K. Burge, J.F. Seelye, M. E. Hopping (1998) · Euphytica
Accumulation of Chiro-inositol and Other Non-structural Carbohydrates in Limonium Species in Response to Saline Irrigation Waters
Xuan Liu, Catherine M. Grieve (2009) · Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Morphological and cytological characteristics of protoplast-derived plants of statice (Limonium perezii Hubbard)
Hisato Kunitake, Kazuharu Koreeda, Masahiro Mii (1995) · Scientia Horticulturae
Morphometric Analysis ofLimoniumSalt Glands in Relation to Ion Efflux
Christopher D. Faraday, William W. Thomson (1986) · Journal of Experimental Botany
A Model for Scheduling Flowering of a Limonium sinuatum × Limonium perezii Hybrid
Jianyu Chen, Keith A. Funnell, E.R. Morgan (2010) · HortScience
Enzymes of choline synthesis in diverse plants: variation in phosphobase N-methyltransferase activities
Deborah Lorenzin, Candace Webb, Peter S. Summers, Elizabeth A. Weretilnyk (2001) · Canadian Journal of Botany
In vitrogermination of the trinucleate pollen ofLimonium perezii
Celia Zhang, David W. Fountain, E.R. Morgan (1997) · Grana
Turnip mosaic virus-vector relationships in field-grown statice, Limonium perezii.
E. F. Laird, Ross Dickson (1972) · ˜The œPlant disease reporter

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Limonium 1 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 33 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.