noun

• A chiefly maritime plant with small pink or lilac funnel-shaped flowers. Several kinds are cultivated and some are used as everlasting flowers.

  Genus Limonium (formerly Statice), family Plumbaginaceae

  ‘On the coast, saltmarshes are covered with sea lavender.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I planted the pen with sea lavender (Statice), which is available in nurseries here.’
  • ‘Higher up you will find others such as Sea Purslane, Sea Aster and Sea Lavender; the latter two have vivid mauve flowers.’