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 60 cm 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, 3-50 mm long and 1-20 mm wide. The flowers are usually on solitary branches, up to 3 in a cluster, 12 mm long, corolla blue-purple, pedicel up to 2 mm long, bracteoles oblong-shaped and up to 3 mm long. Flowering occurs mostly from August to November and the fruit is cylinder-shaped and up to 7 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Dampiera juncea was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham and the description was published in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (juncea) means "rush-like".

Distribution and habitat
Rush-like dampiera grows inland on sandy, clay or gravelly soils in south-western Western Australia.