Limonium peregrinum young panicle

The buds in the young panicle of a Limonium peregrinum inflorescence are clustered at the tips of all its many branches. What still could develop from this September growth is suggested by the more advanced panicle just below.

Each panicle branch ends here in an ascending spike, comprising two opposite rows of about cylindrical buds that turn pink from the lowermost ones, before opening.

This is a floriferous plant that leaves little to chance in its quest for producing sufficient viable seeds (Manning, 2007; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).