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|accepted_name=Armeria
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=1: 333. 1809
|year=1809
}}
|common_names=Thrift
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plumbaginaceae;Armeria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plumbaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Armeria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Celtic ar mor, at seaside, alluding to habitat
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 602
|treatment_page=page 603
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbs, perennial, scapose, acaulescent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="plants herb duration;plants herb architecture;plants herb architecture;plants herb architecture;rootstock architecture;rootstock texture">taprooted, rootstocks branched, woody.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf architecture"><b>Leaves </b>in basal rosettes, sessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade course;margin architecture or shape">blade linear to linear-spatulate [lanceolate], narrowed or straight to base, margins entire.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="scape pubescence;scape pubescence;scape relief;sheath shape;sheath architecture"><b>Scapes </b>glabrous or densely pubescent, sometimes rugose, enclosed by tubular leafless sheath at apex.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence architecture or arrangement or growth form;inflorescence position;head density;head shape;bract texture"><b>Inflorescences </b>solitary, apical, dense hemispheric heads of scorpioid-cymes, each surrounded by involucre of scarious bracts.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="pedicel presence;pedicel presence"><b>Pedicels </b>absent or present (short).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower architecture;flower growth form"><b>Flowers </b>monomorphic or dimorphic (in pollen and stigma characteristics);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="calyx architecture or shape;calyx shape">calyx 10-ribbed, funnel-shaped;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="tube pubescence;tube pubescence;limb texture;limb architecture or shape;limb architecture or shape">tube usually pubescent on ribs only or all around, rarely glabrous, limbs membranaceous, awned or not;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="petal fusion;petal coloration">petals slightly connate basally, white to deep purple;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="filament fusion">filaments adnate to base of corolla;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="anther position">anthers included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="style quantity;style fusion;style pubescence">styles 5, free, hairy proximally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="stigma arrangement or course or shape;stigma relief;stigma relief">stigmas linear, papillate or smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="calyx duration"><b>Fruits </b>dry, enclosed in persistent calyces, dehiscing transversely.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="fruit condition or texture;fruit dehiscence;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;s South America;Europe;w Asia (n Siberia);n Africa
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Armeria is known to be taxonomically difficult. Species concepts vary among authors. About 50 species can be recognized according to A. R. Pinto da Silva (1972).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bernis1952a
|text=Bernis, F. 1952. Revisión del género Armeria Willd. con especial referencia a los grupos Ibéricos. Anales Inst. Bot. Cavanilles 11(2): 5–287.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=lawrence1940a
|text=Lawrence, G. H. M. 1940. Armerias, native and cultivated. Gentes Herb. 4: 391–418.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=lawrence1947a
|text=Lawrence, G. H. M. 1947. The genus Armeria in North America. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 37: 751–779.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=lefebvre1974a
|text=Lefèbvre, C. 1974. Population variation and taxonomy in Armeria maritima with special reference to heavy-metal tolerant populations. New Phytol. 73: 209–219.
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|id=lefebvre1995a
|text=Lefèbvre, C. and X. Vekemans. 1995. A numerical taxonomic study of Armeria maritima (Plumbaginaceae) in North America and Greenland. Canad. J. Bot. 73: 1583–1595.
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name=Armeria
|author=Claude Lefèbvre;Xavier Vekemans
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plumbaginaceae
|distribution=North America;s South America;Europe;w Asia (n Siberia);n Africa
|reference=bernis1952a;lawrence1940a;lawrence1947a;lefebvre1974a;lefebvre1995a
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1809
|special status=
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|genus=Armeria
|anther position=included
|blade course=straight
|blade shape=narrowed;linear;linear-spatulate
|bract texture=scarious
|calyx architecture or shape=10-ribbed
|calyx duration=persistent
|calyx shape=funnel--shaped
|filament fusion=adnate
|flower architecture=monomorphic
|flower growth form=dimorphic
|fruit condition or texture=dry
|fruit dehiscence=dehiscing
|head density=dense
|head shape=hemispheric
|inflorescence architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|inflorescence position=apical
|leaf architecture=sessile
|limb architecture or shape=not;awned
|limb texture=membranaceous
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|pedicel presence=absent;absent
|petal coloration=white;deep purple
|petal fusion=connate
|plants herb architecture=taprooted;acaulescent;scapose
|plants herb duration=perennial
|rootstock architecture=branched
|rootstock texture=woody
|scape pubescence=pubescent;glabrous
|scape relief=rugose
|sheath architecture=leafless
|sheath shape=tubular
|stigma arrangement or course or shape=linear
|stigma relief=smooth;papillate
|style fusion=free
|style pubescence=hairy
|style quantity=5
|tube pubescence=glabrous;pubescent
|x chromosome quantity=9
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