Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dampiera lanceolata var. lanceolata

Flowering stems. Photographer Russell Best, Murray-Sunset National Park, Vic

Common name

Grooved Dampiera

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Western Slopes. Tablelands north west of Canberra.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m tall. Stems more or less cylindrical, ribbed, white- or grey-hairy with branched hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often becoming hairless with age, warty. Leaves clustered or alternating up the stems, 0.5-5.5 cm long, 2-26 mm wide, upper surface hairy becoming hairless, often warty, lower surface hairy, margins flat or curved down, and entire or toothed. Flowers 8–12 mm long, purple to blue with a yellow throat inside, grey-hairy outside, tubular, the tube slit on the lower side, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, single or in 1-3 groups of 2-9 flowers. Flowering: chiefly August–January. Seed cases 4–5 mm long, greyish hairy.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dampiera~lanceolata (accessed 9 January, 2021)