Scientific Name: Dampiera sylvestris

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  • Pronunciation:
    dam-pee-AIR-ah sil-VEST-ris
  • Common Name:
    Wallum Dampiera, Blue Beauty-bush
  • Derivation:
    Dampiera: sylvestris
  • Type:
    Herb perennial , procumbent
  • Family:
    GOODENIACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Blue spring summer
  • Fruit:
    small indehiscent capsule, 5 mm, calyx lobes continuing as decurrent lines down side of fruit
  • Vegetation Type:
    Sandy, seasonally flooded or swampy coastal wallum
  • Species List:
    Emu Mt., Girraween
Identification Notes

Unbranched stems to 1.5 m long.||LOOK FOR: Usually entire leaf margins, grey hairs on corolla and narrower leaves than D. stricta.||

Landscaping Notes

Suitable plant for appropriate soil conditions (see Vegetation type) Sun, sandy soil, rockeries.