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Eremophila warnesii

Eremophila warnesii
Photo: Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulari family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eremophila warnesii is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with furry leaves, hairy sepals and blue to mauve petals. It is a little-known species, named after the founder of the Eremophila Study Group.

How to grow it

This eremophila has attractive silvery-grey foliage and large pale lilac to purple flowers. It is not widely cultivated but can be propagated from cuttings in summer or by grafting onto Myoporum rootstock. It grows best in well-drained soil in a sunny location and is tolerant of drought and of light frost.

Where it grows

This eremophila occurs near Mount Gould Station and Mount Clere Station north-west of Meekatharra in the Gascoyne and Murchison biogeographic regions where it grows in open mulga 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 warnesii 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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