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The British brand used bold toned statice, limonium and layers of shrubbery.—Hanna McNeila, Footwear News, 22 May 2025 Perennial statice or sea lavender (Limonium perezeii) has purple and white flowers which are just as appropriate as annual statice flowers for dry arrangements.—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025 Add your pick of flowers and accent with filler plants like baby's breath, statice, and eucalyptus.—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2025 His brown hair was made of cinnamon, his white robe crushed rice and the blue background was finely cut statice flower that had been trimmed with small scissors.—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024 For this workshop, Chamberlin brought straw flowers, roses, yarrow, thistle, statice and other delicate adornments.—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, genus of herbs, from Latin, an astringent plant, from Greek statikē, from feminine of statikos causing to stand, astringent
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