Botanical Name: Limonium psilocladon
Common Name: Dwarf statice
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial
Character

Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape very small plant forming a glaucus, rounded mound of small rosettes of foliage with very small flower stalks held above the foliages
Height to 8"
Spread to 6"
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors: full sun or partial shade
Soil tolerates almost any soil; very adaptable to most conditions
Hardiness some frost; zones 4-9, 14-24
 
Morphology:
Leaves oblanceolate to 2" long, ½" across, held in tight rosettes which combine to form a globose shape; leaves are conspicuously blue-green
Flowers very fine panicles of tiny flowers, each forming a lavender calyx and a white corolla; each flower 1/16" across
Fruit small capsule
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
rock garden plant, in small containers, as a dense facer or groundcover; good in seaside gardens and dry areas; very tough, deer resistant and drought tolerant; may seed invasively
 
Landscape Care:
Watering drought tolerant when established; tolerates average watering but will tolerate long stretches without water
Fertilizing none usually required
Pruning remove spent flowers and shear occasionally for neat appearance
Pests/Diseases none of importance
Special Conditions/Other watch for heavy seeding, as this plant may become invasive
 
Origin:
Family: Primulaceae
 
Notes: Island of Rhodes, part of Greece
 
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