Called “thrift family” in GBIF
Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family.
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Limonium perezii
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1 articleIf you've ever wondered why some flowers have short stamens and tall pistils while others are rev...
Perez's sea lavender is widely planted in California gardens and along roadsides, and tracking wh...
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Sea lavender flowers use two different strategies to force cross-pollination instead of self-fertilizing: long-tubed flowers fine-tune the exact positioning of pollen and stigma, while short-tubed flowers rely more on mismatched pollen-stigma chemistry alone. Both tricks push bees and other pollinators to move pollen between different flower types, keeping the plant's gene pool diverse.
Perez's sea lavender is widely planted in California gardens and along roadsides, and tracking where it shows up in the wild...