Westringia glabra
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| Violet westringia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Westringia |
| Species: | W. glabra |
| Binomial name | |
| Westringia glabra | |
Westringia glabra, commonly known as violet westringia,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a small shrub with oval-shaped leaves and pinkish, mauve or purple flowers.
Westringia glabra is a small shrub to 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) high with pink, mauve or purple flowers that have darker purple spots in the throat. The leaves are borne in whorls of three, narrow-elliptic to lance-shaped, 12–20 mm (0.47–0.79 in) long, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) wide, edges rolled under, upper and lower surface smooth to sparsely hairy and the petiole about 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The green calyx outer surface usually has occasional hairs, lobes more or less triangular shaped, 3–3.7 mm (0.12–0.15 in) long and 1–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) wide. Flowering occurs throughout the year.[2][3]