Flowers. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Branches. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrubs. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Mallee Blue-flower, Rough Halgania

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Shrub to 60cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4-2.5cm long, 2-5mm wide, flat or folded lengthwide, rough hairy, sticky, edges entire to toothed, tips blunt or pointed, more or less toothed.  Flowers deep blue to purple, occasionally white, with a short tube and five lobes, in short clusters at the tops of the stems.

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 567

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