- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Sprawling, tangled, flexuose, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-1.2 m high. Fl. white/white-blue, May or Jul to Oct. Grey sand, sandy clay, sand pockets in granite. Winter-wet depressions, roadsides.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 70-470 mm long, 4-17 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle or clearly widest above the middle, entire, erect. Inflorescences without leaves, the flowers aggregated into distinct clusters, the clusters stalked, white or blue, hairy; floral bracts 1.5-2 mm long, hairy. Perianth 3.7-8 mm long, radially symmetrical, hairy, the lobes 2-4 mm long. Nut 2.5-3 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Denmark, Jerramungup, Manjimup, Plantagenet.