Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dampiera stricta

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

Flowering stems. Photographer Richard Hartland, Bunyip State Park, Vic

Common name

Blue Dampiera

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to about 0.9 m high. Stems 3-angled, slightly ribbed, hairless or almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, often bunched in pseudowhorls near the tops of the stems, l.6–5 cm long, 2–20 mm wide, hairless or almost hairless, margins entire or with a few teeth. Flowers light blue, dark blue, or mauve to white inside, outside with shaggy rusty hairs, 10–12 mm long, tubular, the tube slit on the lower side, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowering branches l-2 together, l- or 2-flowered. Flowering: chiefly August–January. Seed cases 4–5 mm long, ribbed, rusty-hairy.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

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