Family: Lamiaceae
Plant: A compact bushy shrub up to 1.5m high with white woolly stems.
Flowers: White to pale mauve flowers having 5-lobes and borne in the upper leaf axils.
Flowering: All year
Fruit: Dry, segmented fruit
Leaves: Linear to lanceolate 1-3cm long and 3-5mm wide, grey-green above, white and felty on underside and with recurved margins. The leaves are crowded and usually in whorls of 4 – but can be in whorls of 3-5.
Habitat: Common on heathland, the top of sea cliffs and on foreshores.
Features: White to mauve 5-lobed flowers. Small grey-green leaves. Leaves crowded or whorled and felty on the underside.
Name:
Westringia After the Swedish writer and physician Dr. John Petrus Westering.
fruticosa From Latin fruticos = bushy, shrubby.
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
White, Mauve |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, |
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10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Whorled |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Oval |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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