English: Leadwort family; Plumbago family.
Dutch: Strandkruidfamilie.
Botany: cosmopolitan, perennial herbaceous, salt-rich steppes, marshes, sea coasts; grows on poor soil with
Calcium, dunes.
DD:
Stage 14, Lead;
Natrium, Chlorine,
Sulphur,
Calcium,
Lanthanides;
Primulaceae;
Plantaginaceae.
Content: plumbagin, naphtoquinone.
Genera of PlumbaginaceaeAcantholimon
Aegialitis
Armeria, the thrifts or seapinks
Bamiana
Bukiniczia
Cephalorhizum
Ceratostigma, the leadworts
Chaetolimon
Dictyolimon
Dyerophytum
Eremolimon
Ghasnianthus
Goniolimon
Ikonnikovia
Limoniastrum
Limoniopsis
Limonium (syn. Statice), the sealavenders
Muellerolimon
Neogontscharovia
Plumbagella
Plumbago, the leadworts or plumbagos
Popoviolimon
Psylliostachys
Vassilczenkoa