Dampiera juncea
Dampiera juncea commonly known as rush-like dampiera, is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, upright perennial with blue-purple flowers.
Description
Dampiera juncea is an upright perennial to high, becoming smooth except the flowers and the stems are slightly ribbed. The leaves are sessile, linear to needle-shaped to lance-shaped, dense, smooth or covered in occasional soft hairs, long and wide. The flowers are usually on solitary branches, up to 3 in a cluster, long, corolla blue-purple, pedicel up to long, bracteoles oblong-shaped and up to long. Flowering occurs mostly from August to November and the fruit is cylinder-shaped and up to long.
Dampiera juncea was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham and the description was published in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet means "rush-like".
Distribution and habitat
Rush-like dampiera grows inland on sandy, clay or gravelly soils in south-western Western Australia.