Plants herbs or small shrubs. Leaves usually in a basal rosette. Inflorescences of bracteate spikelets, each with 1-several flowers, on 1-sided branches, branches in panicles or headlike clusters. Calyces funnel-shape, 5-ribbed and 5-lobed, limb scarious; corollas with short tube or petals united only at the base; stamens inserted at the base of the corollas, glabrous, fre or united at the base; styles 5, free or united at the base; stigmas filiform. Fruits capsules, irregular dehiscent or opening bu a lid.
Limonium is a cosmopolitan genus of approximately 350 species. It is especially well represented in the Mediterranean Region and Central Asia.