Plant
Sea lavender
Limonium carolinianum
A small native salt-marsh perennial — fleshy basal leaves, branched stems with delicate lavender-purple flowers in late summer. One of the most-distinctive flowering plants of Atlantic salt marshes. Tolerates the upper-marsh saline conditions where many plants can't survive. Found at Staten Island's salt-marsh edges (Lemon Creek, Mount Loretto, harbor flats). Late-summer flowering coincides with the harbor's peak shorebird-migration season.
Scientific
Limonium carolinianum is a 1–2 ft salt-tolerant perennial of Atlantic-coast salt marshes from Quebec to Florida. Fleshy oblong basal leaves; branched flowering stems with delicate small [[lavender|lavender]]-purple flowers (~¼ inch) in late summer. Salt-tolerant — accumulates salt and excretes it through leaf glands.
Long history of horticultural and floral use — cut stems persist long after harvest and have been a traditional dried-flower material.
Salt-marsh ecology — sea lavender is one of the principal pollinator-accessible flowers of intact Atlantic high-marsh communities. Late-summer flowering aligns with peak shorebird and butterfly activity in the marsh.
On Staten Island
Present at the borough’s salt-marsh edges. Lemon Creek, [[mount-loretto-unique-area|Mount Loretto]]‘s tidal areas, harbor flats. Less abundant than dominant grasses but conspicuous in flower (the marsh’s purple haze in August–September).
See also
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- Substrate of: [[smooth-cordgrass]]
- Member of: [[plants]]
- Contained by: [[staten-island]]
Sources
- USDA NRCS Plants Database: sea lavender
- Atlantic salt-marsh community documentation
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