Goniolimon

{{short description|Genus of Plumbaginaceae plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Goniolimon tataricum.jpg

|image_caption = Goniolimon tataricum

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|taxon = Goniolimon

|authority = Boiss.A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 12: 632 (1848)

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms = *Ikonnikovia Lincz.

}}

Goniolimon, sometimes called the statices, are a genus of flowering plants in the leadwort and plumbago family Plumbaginaceae, native to northern Africa, southern Europe, western and central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia and China.{{cite journal |doi=10.1002/ece3.4553 |title=An expanded molecular phylogeny of Plumbaginaceae, with emphasis on Limonium (Sea lavenders): Taxonomic implications and biogeographic considerations |year=2018 |last1=Koutroumpa |first1=Konstantina |last2=Theodoridis |first2=Spyros |last3=Warren |first3=Ben H. |last4=Jiménez |first4=Ares |last5=Celep |first5=Ferhat |last6=Doğan |first6=Musa |last7=Romeiras |first7=Maria M. |last8=Santos-Guerra |first8=Arnoldo |last9=Fernández-Palacios |first9=Jóse María |last10=Caujapé-Castells |first10=Juli |last11=Moura |first11=Mónica |last12=Menezes De Sequeira |first12=Miguel |last13=Conti |first13=Elena |journal=Ecology and Evolution |volume=8 |issue=24 |pages=12397–12424 |pmid=30619554 |pmc=6308857 |bibcode=2018EcoEv...812397K }} Low-lying perennial shrubs, some species are cultivated as ground covers.{{cite book |isbn=9783662028995 |page=529 |title=Flowering Plants: Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid Families |last1=Kubitzki |first1=Klaus |last2=Rohwer |first2=Jens G. |last3=Bittrich |first3=Volker |date=29 June 2013 |publisher=Springer }}