Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Dampiera scottiana

Common name

A dampiera

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast and ranges, north from Jervis Bay and Nerriga.

Notes

Shrub to 0.6 m high. Stems cylindrical, ribbed, covered with pale grey hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes clustered, 0.9–3 cm long, l-6 mm wide, margins entire or with a few teeth, upper surface hairless, lower surface pale greyish hairy. Flowers purple to mauve inside, with fine silvery-grey hairs outside, 9–12 mm long, tubular, the tube slit on the lower side, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowering branches single or 2 together, l-3-flowered. Flowering: chiefly August–January. Seed cases 3–4 mm long, ribbed, silvery-grey hairy.

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