Dampiera lavandulacea

Dampiera lavandulacea is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, upright shrub with blue flowers.

Description
Dampiera lavandulacea is an upright or ascending perennial to 70 cm high with ribbed, smooth stems. The leaves are sessile, 9-21 mm long, 2-11 mm wide, oblong to elliptic shaped, rolled under, smooth on upper surface and densely covered with white, short, matted hairs on the lower surface, margins smooth or occasionally with a few teeth, 9-21 mm long and 2-11 mm wide. The flowers are borne singly in lower leaf axils or up 3 in a cluster in upper axils, pedicel 0.5-1 mm long, bracts linear to oblong-shaped and 4-7 mm long. The corolla is 10-15 mm long, usually blue-lavender with a white centre and the wings 2.5-3 mm wide. Flowering occurs in July or September to November and the fruit is egg-shaped up to 4 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Dampiera lavandulacea was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley and the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (lavandulacea) means "lavender".

Distribution and habitat
This dampiera is a widespread species growing in south-western Western Australia from coastal areas and to the Eastern Goldfields on sand in heath and woodland.