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  • COMMON NAME: Sea Lavender
  • ARABIC: شليله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Limonium carnosum ( Boiss. ) Kuntze
  • SYNONYMS: Statice carnosa Boiss.
  • FAMILY: PLUMBAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) 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.

Perennial herbs or sub-shrubs, suberect up to 40 cm high. Stems branched from woody base. Leaves fascicled linear-spathulate, greyish-green, glabrous, 1-2.5 cm long, 0.2-0.4 cm broad, tapering at base as a short petiole, covered with fine crystals of salt. Flowers few, small, bracteate, in spicate panicles. Bracts reddish, ovate with white margined.  

Flowering from January to June.
Coastal salt marshes, sabkha edges and mountains.