Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dampiera scottiana

Flower. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Parma Creek Nature Reserve near Nowra

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Parma Creek Nature Reserve near Nowra

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)