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Armeria is a genus of flowering plants. These plants are sometimes known as lady's cushion, thrift, or sea pink. The genus counts over a hundred species, mostly native to the Mediterranean, although Armeria maritima is an exception, being distributed along the coasts of the Northern Hemisphere, including Ireland, parts of the United Kingdom such as Cornwall, and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Armeria", CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Photographs: fmunoz, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (6).
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Other Armeria 26 in the reference
Armeria alliacea Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Karim Haddad
Armeria arenaria Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC BY, aroche
Armeria caespitosa Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Rafael Medina
Armeria canescens Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC0, Mirko Ubović
Armeria curvifolia Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Matias Baranzelli Armeria filicaulis Plumbaginaceae
Armeria girardii Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Yves Bas
Armeria hispalensis Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Santiago Martín-Bravo
Armeria humilis Plumbaginaceae Photo: CC BY, João Lima all 27 ›Names & registers
Also known as Armeria canescens subsp. gracilis; Armeria canescens subsp. nebrodensis; Armeria gracilis subsp. majellensis; Armeria heterophylla; Armeria majellensis subsp. ausonia and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)
Kew accepts as species of their own Armeria gracilis; Armeria majellensis: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)
Under another author Armeria alpina Guss. and Armeria alpina Ten. ex Boiss. is an older name of this species, not Armeria alpina, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)
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