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Dampiera ferruginea

Dampiera ferruginea
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
E. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Dampiera ferruginea commonly known as velvet beauty-bush, is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a small, upright shrub with blue flowers.

Where it grows

Velvet beauty-bush grows in swamps and sclerophyll forest south of Cape York Peninsula to central Queensland and coastal locations and the Great Dividing Range.

Other Dampiera plants

Dampiera adpressa · Winged Stem Dampiera · Tall Dampiera · Dampiera candicans · Dampiera dentata · Dampiera diversifolia · Shrubby Dampiera · Dampiera eriocephala · Karri Dampiera · Dampiera incana · Rush Like Dampiera · Dampiera lavandulacea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dampiera ferruginea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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