| Description | A Thrift with purplish pink colored flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (ar-MEER-i-ah) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, tolerates drier sites |
| Soil & Site | average to dry, must be well drained |
| Flowers | globe of tiny flowers, borne on a scape that extends above the foliage, each flower has 5 petals, 5 stamens and 5 styles, purplish pink, fuschia |
| Fruit | seed capsule with one seed |
| Leaves | a tuft of 1/8" wide evergreen linear, green, evergreen in warmer climates, in zone #5 will be evergreen but the size of the tuft gets much small |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Dimensions | 12-14 inches by 10-12 inches (HS) |
| Maintenance | deadheading, to help maintain the plants vigor the clump can be divided every 3 years |
| Propagation | seeds, division |
| Native Site | Species native to Northern Europe, Iceland and Greenland. |
| Misc Facts | The species name is derived from maritumus pertaining to the sea. Armeria from the French word armories, which means clustered head, referring to the flowers. |
| Notes & Reference | 04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Alan Armitage), #40-Herbaceous Ornamental Plants (Steven Still) |
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