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Eremophila veronica

Eremophila veronica
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Eremophila veronica is a low, spreading desert shrub from Western Australia, grown for its lilac and white flowers and tolerance of dry, sunny conditions. The key to growing it is full sun, sharp drainage and infrequent watering once established.

Family
Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulari family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water only occasionally, during long dry spells, and let the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained soil; sandy or gritty mix suits it, as it grows in rocky clay in the wild.
Temperature
Tolerant of hot, dry conditions and very frost tolerant; exact limits not documented.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Western Australia (Coolgardie)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eremophila veronica, commonly known as veronica-like eremophila, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with small, crowded leaves and lilac-coloured flowers which have a short petal tube and spreading petal lobes.

How to grow it

This shrub is an ornamental plant, even when not covered with its small pale blue flowers. It can be propagated from cuttings and grows best in well-drained soil in full sun. It only needs an occasional watering during a long dry spell and is very frost tolerant.

Where it grows

This eremophila occurs in the Coolgardie area in the Coolgardie and Murchison biogeographic regions growing in rocky clay soil in low Eucalyptus woodland.

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 veronica 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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