Limonium equisetinum (Boiss.) R.A.Dyer

Tufted perennial sometimes producing rhizomes, somewhat glaucous, very thinly and shortly pubescent or glabrous, slightly pitted. Leaves radical, obovate or oblong, obtuse, mucronate, tapering into the stem-clasping petiole, 1-3 cm long, up to 1 cm broad. Scapes several decumbent or ascending, 10-30 cm long, with sterile often dense branchlets along their length and only the terminal ones bearing short spikes with the spikelets distichous and imbricate (very rarely with tufts of small leaves at the nodes); bracts ovate-triangular, acute, keeled. Spikelets 2-or occasionally 3-flowered, bracts enveloping the base of the young calyx, in more mature stage calyx protruding laterally, acute or mucronate, with membranous margin, glabrous. Calyx cylindric and glabrous or thinly pubescent in the lower half with the limb somewhat spreading and shortly 5-lobed. Petals blue, oblanceolate, emarginate, much longer than calyx. Ovary 5 angled above with 5 free styles.