Limonium capense is a branched shrublet endemic to a small area of coastal limestone flats and fynbos near Malmesbury and Saldanha Bay. The Limoniums of the Western Cape are often called sea-pink or in Afrikaans papierblom (paper flower). They belong to the Plumbaginaceae family.

These plants grows to about 45 cm with obovate leaves that have a pitted and a finely scaled, greyish surface. The white, papery corolla of the flower has five pink bands from the uneven corolla edge into the throat with a dark purple line down the centre of each. Flowers occur on short spikes and the plant blooms in summer (JSTOR).