Statice (Sea Lavender)
Limonium platyphyllum (formerly Limonium latifolium). PLUMBAGINACEAE.
Planting and Growing Statice
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow statice in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of statice
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for statice
- Season of bloom and planting time for statice
- When, how deep, and where to plant statice
- How to plant statice
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of statice
- Landscape and container uses of statice
- Comments about statice and its features
Growing Statice
Many cultivars of bushy, spreading, shrublike, woody, deciduous perennial herbs, to 30 in. (75 cm) tall and 3 ft. (90 cm) wide. Hairy, textured, deep green, oblong to elliptical, sword-shaped leaves, to 10 in. (25 cm) long.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Tiny, blue, lavender, white, lacy flowers with blue violet centers, in cloudlike, pyramidal, loosely branched, upright clusters, to 6 in. (15 cm) wide, in spring–summer.
Best Climates
Hardy. Plant as annual, zones 3–4; ground hardy, zones 5–11.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained, sandy soil or, in water features, shallow-depth marginal or shoreline sites. Fertility: Average–low. 6.0–8.0 pH. Salt tolerant.
Where and How to Plant
Early spring in full sun, 18 in. (45 cm) apart, after soil warms.
Proper Care
Moderate–challenging. Keep evenly moist until established; drought tolerant thereafter. Fertilize annually in spring. Stake, protect from wind. Propagate by division, seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for beds, borders, edgings in cottage, wildlife gardens and water feature margins. Good for cutting, drying. Attracts birds, butterflies. Pest and disease resistant.