Dampiera juncea
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| Rush-like dampiera | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Dampiera |
| Species: | D. juncea |
| Binomial name | |
| Dampiera juncea | |
Dampiera juncea commonly known as rush-like dampiera,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, upright perennial with blue-purple flowers.
Dampiera juncea is an upright perennial to 60 cm (24 in) 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 (0.12–1.97 in) long and 1–20 mm (0.039–0.787 in) wide. The flowers are usually on solitary branches, up to 3 in a cluster, 12 mm (0.47 in) long, corolla blue-purple, pedicel up to 2 mm (0.079 in) long, bracteoles oblong-shaped and up to 3 mm (0.12 in) long. Flowering occurs mostly from August to November and the fruit is cylinder-shaped and up to 7 mm (0.28 in) long.[2][3]