Limonium vulgare, Miller, 1768

Brullo, Salvatore & Erben, Matthias, 2016, The genus Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) in Greece, Phytotaxa 240 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

2. Limonium vulgare group.―The species in this group are characterized by having plants with very large, pinnate leaves, well-developed stems without sterile branches, more or less dense spikes, very small spikelets, and calyces with undulate lobes. This group contains sexual species with diploid or eupolyploid chromosome complements (2n = 18, 36, 54, 72), usually ecologically restricted to salt marshes (more rarely to rocky coasts). Some species in this group have a very wide distribution. For example, L. vulgare Miller (1768 : no.1) and L. humile Miller (1768 : no.4) both occur along the Atlantic coast of Europe, or L. gmelinii (Willd.) Kuntze (1891:395) and L. meyeri (Boiss.) Kuntze (1891: 395) , which are found on the continental salt steppes of Eastern Europe and Asia and on eastern Mediterranean coast. L. narbonense is the most widely spread Mediterranean species that also occurs in North and Central Greece. Other species in the group have more restricted distributions in Greece, such as L. compactum , which occurs in localized populations along the Aegean coastlines of Sterea Ellas, the south-eastern coast of Peleponnese, and the islands of Euboea, Lesbos and Skyros. L. brevipetiolatum is frequent on selected Ionian Islands (Kerkira, Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos) and on the Ionian coast of the Peloponnese. L. hirsuticalyx is only known from the islands of Rhodes, Kos and Naxos, and L. pagasaeum is only found growing near Volos (Thessaly).