What is "limonium"

Limonium is a genus of 120 flower species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin , used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek (, ‘meadow’).