Limonium belledifolium - or not?

[Jupiter]

I have this little Limonium in my rock garden which seems to be a match for one given to me by Otto, which he called belledifolium, but I've been googling and I'm left with some niggling doubt that I can't shake... there's something about the shape of the leaves in many of the photographs online which doesn't seem quite right, but it might just be variation within the species throwing me.

Anyone here have experience with the species or others like mine?





Flowers are pink and are a good match for those shown online as belledifolium

[vivienne Condon]

Jamis this is the plant that we have always grown as Limonium bellidifolium, but I did look at the web too and there are some narrow leaved forms there, as well as the form we know of as L. bellidifolium. Limonium bellidifolium grows wild in the sandy fore shore at Robe in S.A. have you seen it there?
 According to the AGS Encyclopaedia of Alpines there is a quote "12cm long leaved form from the Ukraine, L.danubiale. It seems likely that true L. bellidifolium is seldom cultivated, other species being offered in its place." unquote. May be some one from UK or Europe will recognise it. Viv

[Jupiter]

Hi Vivienne, yes I have seen in around Robe and in a lot of other places too. It's in coastal areas around kangaroo island and in a footpath at my work, believe it or not! Goodness only knows how it got there but that's how it came to be in my rock garden. I suspect a naming mix up here as did the author of that quote you found... Not a big deal I suppose, but I do like to know what I'm growing!