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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Andersonia caerulea R.Br. subsp. caerulea

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Upright, branched to round and compact shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. pink/white/blue, Feb to Dec. White to grey sand, white to grey skeletal sand over clay, red gravelly sand over laterite, grey clay over granite. Undulating plains, slopes and hillsides, along drainage lines and creekbanks, swamps, road verges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 February 2006

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Boyup Brook, Busselton, Capel, Collie, Cranbrook, Denmark, Harvey, Manjimup, Nannup, Plantagenet, Williams.