Botanical name: Limonium sinuatum

Common name: Sea lavender

Sea lavender, or statice, is a large group of plants in the genus Limonium, all of which have distinctive spiky flowers and simple or lobed leaves. Representatives of this family can be found growing all over the world in sizes ranging from one foot (30 centimeters) tall to large bushes. In general, statice thrives in sandy soil and also tolerates salt marshes, so it is often found on shorelines, islands, and in other locations which are too severe for most plants to thrive in. For this reason, it is widely cultivated in some regions to provide accent color, as well as fodder for bouquets.

Limonium is a genus of 120 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. 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’)

Limonium sinuatum is known for attracting bees. It nectar-pollen-rich-flowers.

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 meters 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 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 color is pink or violet to purple in most species, white or yellow in a few. Many of the species are apomictic. The fruit is a small capsule containing a single seed, partly enclosed by the persistent calyx.