Family: Goodeniaceae
Plant: A small multi-stemmed shrub up to 40cm high with 3-angled mostly smooth stems.
Flowers: Dark blue to mauve 5-lobed irregular flowers, 1-2cm across with a yellow throat and rusty hairs on the outside of the corolla. The flowers produced singly or in pairs in the leaf axils.
Flowering: August-January.
Fruit: 3-4mm long ribbed, rusty and hairy.
Leaves: Linear to lanceolate stalkless 1.5-4.5cm long, 2-19mm wide and often bunched towards the ends of angular stems. They are smooth and thick with entire or sparsely toothed margins.
Habitat: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland on sandy soils.
Features: Blue flowers. Stem has 3 acute angles
Name:
Dampiera After the English privateer and botanical author William Dampier
stricta From Latin = bound (referring to its leaves held against the stem)
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Type |
Shrub, Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Blue, Mauve |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Green, Brown, Rust |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Ribbed |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire, |
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Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Unstalked, |
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Stem-clasping |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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