Flower. Photo: Russell Best, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Russell Best, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Common Name

Grooved Dampiera

Family

Goodeniaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1m tall. Leaves clustered or alternating along the stems, 0.5-5cm long, 2-26mm wide, flat, upper surface hairy becoming hairless, often warty, lower surface hairy, edges flat or curved down, margins entire or toothed. Flowers purplish blue with a yellow throat, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, solitary or in groups of 2-9 flowers on 1-3 stalks arising at the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 631

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dampiera~lanceolata