Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Conospermum ericifolium

Flower heads. Photographer Peter Woodard, Kuringai Chase National Park, Sydney.

Leaves. Photographer Peter Woodard, Kuringai Chase National Park, Sydney.

Common name

A Smoke Bush

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Shrubby woodland, heath and moist sites. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north from Ulladulla.

Notes

Shrub  to 0.80 m high. Branches hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, often crowded, 0.5–2.5 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, hairless. Flowers cream to white, 6–7 mm long, tubular, with 4 lobes. Flowers in branched clusters. Flowering: spring.

Intergrades with Conospermum taxifolium where populations overlap. Most of the plants in the higher Blue Mountains are intermediate between the two species.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Conospermum~ericifolium (accessed 7 January, 2021)