Armeria

Some are popular with gardeners as rockery plants.

During the Second World War, the UK thruppenny bit coin (3 old pence), which had featured a portcullis on its reverse side, changed to a depiction of the thrift plant, as a means of reminding the population of the need to avoid waste and practise thrift. After the war, it reverted to the portcullis.

Species

101 species are currently accepted:

• Armeria alboi (Bernis) Nieto Fel.
• Armeria alliacea (Cav.) Hoffmanns. & Link
• Armeria alpina (DC.) Willd.
• Armeria alpinifolia Pau & Font Quer
• Armeria apollinaris Sennen & Mauricio
• Armeria arcuata Welw. ex Boiss. & Reut.
• Armeria arenaria (Pers.) F.Dietr.
• Armeria aspromontana Brullo, Scelsi & Sampinato
• Armeria atlantica Pomel
• Armeria beirana Franco
• Armeria belgenciensis Donad. ex Kerguélen
• Armeria berlengensis Daveau
• Armeria bigerrensis (Pau ex C.Vicioso & Beltrán) Pau ex Rivas Mart.
• Armeria bourgaei Boiss. ex Merino
• Armeria brutia Brullo, Gangale & Uzunov
• Armeria caballeroi (Bernis) Donad.
• Armeria caespitosa (Ortega) Boiss.
• Armeria canescens (Host) Boiss.
• Armeria cantabrica Boiss. & Reut. ex Willk.
• Armeria capitella Pau
• Armeria cariensis Boiss.
• Armeria × carnotana Blanco-Dios
• Armeria castellana Boiss. & Reut. ex Leresche
• Armeria castrovalnerana Alejandre, Barredo & M.J.Escal.
• Armeria castroviejoi Nieto Fel.
• Armeria choulettiana Pomel
• Armeria ciliata (Lange) Nieto Fel.
• Armeria × cintrana Taul.Gomes
• Armeria colorata Pau
• Armeria curvifolia Bertero
• Armeria denticulata (Bertol.) DC.
• Armeria duriaei Boiss.
• Armeria ebracteata Pomel
• Armeria eriophylla Willk.
• Armeria euscadiensis Donad. & Vivant
• Armeria filicaulis (Boiss.) Boiss.
• Armeria fontqueri Pau
• Armeria gaditana Boiss.
• Armeria garganica Arrigoni
• Armeria genesiana Nieto Fel.
• Armeria girardii (Bernis) Litard.
• Armeria godayana Font Quer
• Armeria gracilis Ten.
• Armeria grajoana Casim.-Sor.Solanas & Cabezudo
• Armeria gussonei Boiss.
• Armeria helodes F.Martini & Poldini
• Armeria hirta Willd.
• Armeria hispalensis Pau
• Armeria humilis (Link) Schult.
• Armeria icarica Edm.
• Armeria johnsenii Papan. & Kokkini
• Armeria langei Boiss.
• Armeria leonis Sennen
• Armeria leucocephala Salzm. ex W.D.J.Koch
• Armeria linkiana Nieto Fel.
• Armeria macrophylla Boiss. & Reut.
• Armeria macropoda Boiss.
• Armeria maderensis Lowe
• Armeria malacitana Nieto Fel.
• Armeria malinvaudii H.J.Coste & Soulié
• Armeria maritima – sea thrift, sea cushion, sea pink
• Armeria masguindalii (Pau) Nieto Fel.
• Armeria mauritanica Wallr.
• Armeria merinoi (Bernis) Nieto Fel. & Silva Pando
• Armeria montiberica García Cardo, Fabado & Mateo
• Armeria morisii Boiss.
• Armeria muelleri A.L.P.Huet
• Armeria nebrodensis (Guss.) Boiss.
• Armeria neglecta Girard
• Armeria × nieto-felineri Rivas Mart., T.E.Díaz & Fern.Gonz.
• Armeria pauana (Bernis) Nieto Fel.
• Armeria × pilariae Sánchez Gullón, Muñoz Rodr. & Polo Ávila
• Armeria pinifolia (Brot.) Hoffmanns. & Link
• Armeria pocutica Pawł.
• Armeria pseudarmeria (Murray) Mansf.
• Armeria pubigera (Desf.) Boiss.
• Armeria pubinervis Boiss.
• Armeria pungens (Brot.) Hoffmanns. & Link
• Armeria quichiotis (Gonz.Albo) A.W.Hill
• Armeria rhodopea Velen.
• Armeria rivasmartinezii Sard.Rosc. & Nieto Fel.
• Armeria rothmaleri Nieto Fel.
• Armeria rouyana Daveau
• Armeria rumelica Boiss.
• Armeria ruscinonensis Girard
• Armeria × salmantica (Bernis) Nieto Fel.
• Armeria sampaioi (Bernis) Nieto Fel.
• Armeria sancta Janka
• Armeria sardoa Spreng.
• Armeria saviana Selvi
• Armeria seticeps Rchb.
• Armeria simplex Pomel
• Armeria soleirolii (Duby) Godr.
• Armeria spinulosa Boiss.
• Armeria splendens (Lag. & Rodr.) Webb
• Armeria sulcitana Arrigoni
• Armeria tingitana Boiss. & Reut.
• Armeria trachyphylla Lange
• Armeria transmontana (Samp.) G.H.M.Lawr.
• Armeria trianoi Nieto Fel.
• Armeria trojana Bokhari & Quézel
• Armeria undulata (Bory & Chaub.) Boiss.
• Armeria vandasii Hayek
• Armeria velutina Welw. ex Boiss. & Reut.
• Armeria villosa Girard
• Armeria welwitschii Boiss.