Urginea maritima is herbaceous perennial native to the Mediterranean that grows from a large bulb forming a basal rosette of fleshy, straplike leaves in the winter (in the southwest US) into . The leaves are a blue/green color and will emerge in late fall (November) through early Spring (April) in the Northern Hemisphere (2). The leaf length is typically between 12 and 18 inches long and the width is usually around 4 inches ( 2). The plant (with inflorescence) grows 4 to 7 feet tall and the bulbs can reach 8 inches and around 2 pounds in weight (5,6). Flowers on this plant form on a tall spike that emerges from the center of the vegetative rosette and can be purple (lavender), red ( burgundy), or white (3). The flowers have 6 petals arranged as a star-shaped corolla , (2). Sea onion flowers bloom in July through November in the Northern Hemisphere (3).