Weeds of Australia - Fact Sheet

Top Scientific Name Synonyms Family Common Names Origin Naturalised Distribution Notes

Scientific Name

Limonium lobatum (L. f.) Chaz.

Synonyms

Limonium lobatum (L. f.) Kuntze
Limonium thouinii (Viv.) Kuntze
Statice lobata L. f.
Statice thouinii Viv.

Family

Plumbaginaceae

Common Names

statice, winged sea lavender, winged sea-lavender

Origin

Native to northern Africa (i.e. Algeria, northern Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), the Canary Islands, south-eastern Spain, southern Greece and western Asia.

Naturalised Distribution

Widely naturalised in the drier inland regions, and some coastal areas, of southern Australia (i.e. in many parts of western New South Wales, in north-western Victoria, in large parts of South Australia and in the sub-coastal and inland regions of western and southern Western Australia).

Notes

Winged sea-lavender (Limonium lobatum) is regarded as an environmental weed in Western Australia and South Australia, and was recently listed as a priority environmental weed in at least one Natural Resource Management region.

In South Australia this species is a common coastal weed in the Gulf St. Vincent area, and has been recorded in conservation areas in other parts of the state (e.g. in the Flinders Ranges National Park and Halbury Parklands Conservation Reserve). In Western Australia winged sea-lavender (Limonium lobatum) grows in both disturbed sites and relatively intact native vegetation in the northern and eastern wheatbelt regions.

Winged sea-lavender (Limonium lobatum) is also listed as a common weed of shrubby riverine woodland and Woorinen mallee vegetation in Victoria, and has been recorded as a weed of Barkindji Biosphere Reserve in the north-western parts of this state. It is also a weed of rangelands in the Lower Murray Darling Catchment in south-western New South Wales, and has been recorded growing in the Paroo-Darling National Park.