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  • COMMON NAME: Sea Lavender
  • ARABIC: شليله، قطف
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Limonium axillare ( Forsskal ) Kuntze
  • SYNONYMS: Statica axillaris Forssk.
  • FAMILY: PLUMBAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/limonium_axillare.htm https://www.enature.qa/ar/specie/sea-lavender/ Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Extremely salt tolerant up to seawater salinity. The plant in all its parts is used in the treatment of diarrhea as a tissue astringent. Ash of dry wood used as snuff. Ground roots and stems mixed with water to form paste and used to dye fishing gear to make the nets less visible to the fish and to make the fibre less prone to rot.

Ascending low shrublet up to 70 cm high, usually with woody rootstock and many erect branches, the older branches without leaves. Leaves greyish-green, fleshy fascicled, oblanceolate-spathulate, 1.5-4 cm long and 0.4-0.8 cm broad, with rounded or subacute apices and tapering towards the base as a short petiole or sessile, mostly punctate or with glands secreting salts. Flowers many, small, bracteate, in dense spikelets in a naked terminal panicle. Calyx 0.3-0.5 cm long, nearly plicate, hairy below, with white limb. Corolla ourple, longer than calyx, deciduous. 

Flowering from January to June.
The plant grows in saline areas along both coasts and at sabkha edges around Al Ain, Liwa and Sueyhan.
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