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Dasymalla teckiana

Dasymalla teckiana
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Dasymalla teckiana is a small, sticky, openly branched shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its mauve and white bugle-shaped flowers. It needs good drainage and a sunny, sheltered spot; it is not a common garden plant.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly during establishment and in dry periods, letting the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil, as in its native granite-area soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost briefly, protect below about -2 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Dasymalla teckiana is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, openly branched, sticky shrub with mauve and white, bugle-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

Dasymalla teckiana occurs in the south-west of Western Australia, mostly north of the Great Eastern Highway, as far east as Kalgoorlie in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Dampierland and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions growing in a range of soils near granite outcrops.

Other Dasymalla plants

Dasymalla axillaris · Dasymalla chorisepala · Dasymalla glutinosa · Native Foxglove · Dasymalla

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dasymalla teckiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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