- Reference
- Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 9:370 (1857)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect to spreading, unpleasantly aromatic annual, herb, 0.2-0.6 m high, covered by simple, moderately long eglandular hairs. Fl. purple-pink, Jan to Mar. Sandy to clayey soil, river levee soils, basalt, ironstone. On open sandy plains, creek banks, at base of hills by rock holes.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Victoria Bonaparte, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Ashburton, Augustus, Carnegie, Chichester, Eastern Murchison, Fortescue, Hamersley, Keep, Mackay, Merredin, Mount Eliza, Pindanland, Purnululu, Roebourne, Tallering, Trainor, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Broome, Carnarvon, Cue, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Greater Geraldton, Halls Creek, Meekatharra, Morawa, Murchison, Port Hedland, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna, Wyndham-East Kimberley.