Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Westringia davidii
Common name
David's westringia
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland and shrubland, fringing rocky outcrops. Ranges west of Eden and Pambula.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems, leaf stalks, and the lower surface of the leaves hairy with more or less spreading tangled hairs. Leaves slightly aromatic when rubbed, in whorls of 3, 0.7–2 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, margins entire and curved down; lower surface very sparsely hairy, becoming hairless towardes the tip, upper surface and stalk moderately to densely hairy with more or less spreading, slightly tangled hairs. Flowers white to mauve with orange dots, 8–12 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Calyx tubular, with 5 lobes. Flowers in up to 12 flowered clusters. Flowering: throughout the year.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10835 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Westringia~davidii (accessed 8 January 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
