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Eremophila pustulata

Eremophila pustulata
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Eremophila pustulata, blistered eremophila, is a hardy, drought-tolerant shrub from Western Australia with lilac to purple tubular flowers. It thrives in full sun, well-drained soil of almost any type, and needs little water once established.

Family
Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulari family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little or no extra water.
Soil
Well-drained sandy loam or clay; tolerates a range of soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry conditions and light frost; protect from hard freezes below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eremophila pustulata, commonly known as blistered eremophila is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with fleshy, warty leaves and purple, lilac, violet or white flowers.

How to grow it

A very hardy and attractive shrub, some specimens of this eremophila have been in cultivation for more than 25 years. It can be propagated from seed or from cuttings and grows well in a range of soils, including clay, in full sun or part shade and is both drought and frost tolerant.

Where it grows

Blistered eremophila is common in areas around Kalgoorlie in the Coolgardie and Murchison biogeographic regions where it grows in sandy-loam or clay in greenstone hills and plains.

Other Eremophila plants

Emu Bush · Diocirea acutifolia · Diocirea microphylla · Diocirea ternata · Diocirea violacea · Emu Bush · Eremophila abietina · Eremophila accrescens · Eremophila acrida · Eremophila adenotricha · Eremophila alatisepala · Narrow Leaved Emu Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremophila pustulata 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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