Limonium bellidifolium, (Gouan) Dumort.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 42

19. L. bellidifolium (Gouan) Dumort. , Fl. Belg. 27 (1827)

( Statice bellidifolia (Gouan) DC. ).

Plant 9-30(-40) cm. Leaves 14-40 x 3—6(—15) mm, spathulate, acute, (l-)3(-5)-veined, usually withered and often completely absent at anthesis. Inflorescence with tuberculate branches; non-flowering branches numerous. Spikes dense, patent; spikelets 1- to 3-flowered. Inner bract 1-6-3-9 mm, hyaline for at least (| -) | of its length; outer bract hyaline except on the keel, overlapping J - j of the inner. Calyx 2-6^4-3 mm; limb l i times as long as the tube. Corolla 4-5-5 mm, pale violet. 2« =18. Maritime salt-marshes; inland on saline soils in U.S.S.R. Coasts o f Mediterranean and Black Seas; S. part o f U.S.S.R.; E. England. Br?Co Ga G r Hs It Ju Rm Rs (W, K, E) Sa. Procumbent plants with the calyx 3-6-4-1 mm and with bracts having a narrow hyaline margin are recorded from the coasts of W. France and England as L. dubyi (Gren. & Godron) O. Kuntze , Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 395 (1891); they may represent a distinct species. L. danubiale Klokov in Kotov & Barbarich, Fl. R S S Ucr. 8: 526 (1957), from S.W. Ukraine, is a larger variant with leaves up to 120 mm and calyx 4-4-5 mm.