Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta, SA

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta, SA

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta, SA

Common Name

Hills Emu-bush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, clustered, 0.5-2cm long, 3.5-10mm wide, flat, hairy eventually becoming hairless, margins toothed. Flowers tubular, red to yellow, 2-lipped with 5 lobes, solitary at the bases of the leaves. Native to the western parts of SA and WA. Family Myoporaceae SA. Rare SA.

eFlora SA fact sheet:  http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Eremophila_hillii

FloraBase photo:  http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/photo/7220