Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: A Lyne, Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Vic

Common Name

Spreading Emu-bush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2m tall. Branches sometimes spine-tipped. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4-3.5cm long, 1-4mm wide, flat, hairless, slightly sticky hairy, tips blunt with a small curved point. Flowers blue, mauve to pinkish lilac (rarely white), bell-shaped, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, solitary at the bases of the leaves. Family Myoporaceae in SA. Rare Vic.

Description and photo (as Eremophila divaricata) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 614

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