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Eremophila obovata is a compact, low desert shrub from Australia with lilac to purple flowers, grown mainly in sunny, well-drained dryland gardens. The key to growing it is full sun, sharp drainage and minimal watering once established.
Eremophila obovata is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a low, compact shrub with lilac to purple flowers growing mainly in the Northern Territory and Queensland but also Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales.
This small, low shrub usually has flowers present on its new growth and subspecies glabriuscula is particular has deep blue flowers and bright green foliage. It can be propagated from cuttings but it is known to sometimes sucker, it which case grafting onto Myoporum rootstock may be preferable. It grows best in well-drained soil in a sunny position and although it is drought tolerant, may benefit from an occasional deep watering in a long dry spell and respond with a flush of flowers. It will tolerate light frosts but not areas where there is high humidity.
Eremophila obovata is common in the south-east of the Northern Territory and the south-west of Queensland. In Western Australia it occurs between the Gary and Sandy Blight junctions on the Gary Junction Road in the Gibson Desert biogeographic region. In South Australia it only occurs in the extreme north-east of the Lake Eyre botanical region. There is a single record from the far north-west of New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremophila obovata 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.
