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|accepted_name=Armeria
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=1: 333. 1809
|year=1809
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|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-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbs, perennial, scapose, acaulescent; taprooted, rootstocks branched, woody. <b>Leaves</b> in basal rosettes, sessile; blade linear to linear-spatulate [lanceolate], narrowed or straight to base, margins entire. <b>Scapes</b> glabrous or densely pubescent, sometimes rugose, enclosed by tubular leafless sheath at apex. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary, apical, dense hemispheric heads of scorpioid cymes, each surrounded by involucre of scarious bracts. <b>Pedicels</b> absent or present (short). <b>Flowers</b> monomorphic or dimorphic (in pollen and stigma characteristics); calyx 10-ribbed, funnel-shaped; tube usually pubescent on ribs only or all around, rarely glabrous, limbs membranaceous, awned or not; petals slightly connate basally, white to deep purple; filaments adnate to base of corolla; anthers included; styles 5, free, hairy proximally; stigmas linear, papillate or smooth. <b>Fruits</b> dry, enclosed in persistent calyces, dehiscing transversely. <b>x</b> = 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><i>Armeria</i> 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.
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|id=lawrence1940a
|text=Lawrence, G. H. M. 1940. Armerias, native and cultivated. Gentes Herb. 4: 391–418.
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|id=lawrence1947a
|text=Lawrence, G. H. M. 1947. The genus Armeria in North America. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 37: 751–779.
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|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
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