California sea lavender
Limonium californicum
Family: Plumbaginaceae
Other Scientific Names:
Limonium commune, Limonium mexicanum
Other Common Names: Western marsh-rosemary
Weed class: monitor list
Year Listed: 2025
Native to: California and Southern Oregon
Is this Weed Toxic?:
not known to be
Why Is It a Noxious Weed?
This plant is on the monitor list - it is not a listed noxious weed in Washington. Please contact its sponsor Jeff Walker to report locations or for more information.
How would I identify it?
General Description
Tough and sturdy perennial herb
Flower Description
Umbrella-shaped clusters of many small lavender to white flowers. Each flower is small and vaguely bell-shaped.
Leaf description
Large, rounded, spoon-shaped leaves, which feel leathery, and can be over 6 inches long and 3 inches wide.
Stem description
Leaves grow from a basal rosette and do not have true stems. Flowers grow on the ends of branching, umbrella-shaped stalks. These flowering stems are round and green to purple-red.
Where does it grow?
Salt marshes, estuaries, coastal areas, and other saline wetland areas.
How Does it Reproduce?
Seed and underground rhizomes.
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