NATIVE CORNFLOWER Brunonia australis is a perennial herb to 0.4 m high with blue flowers. Each flower head is composed of many tiny flowers. The species occurs over most of Western Australia and is also present in all other Australian states.

WOOLLY-HEADED DAMPIERA. Dampiera eriocephala. This species, with its basal leaves, is quite similar to Dampiera wellsiana. However D. eriocephala has dense hairs under the leaves as shown here, whereas D. wellsiana does not.

Dampiera haematotricha This species has glandular and normal hairs on the pedicels. Some of these can be seen by enlarging the image to HUGE.

Dampiera lavandulacea plant. It has ribbed stems. The new growth is very hairy. The species occurs from Mullewa to the south coast and east to Ponton Creek, excluding the forest country of the south west of Western Australia.

Dampiera lavandulacea. Leaves are toothed and curled under with dense hairs on the underside. It can grow to 0.9 m tall and is inclined to a clumping growth habit. The flowers can be blue and white as here, or mauve and white.

Dampiera luteiflora. Luteiflora means yellow flower. The flowers of this dampiera are usually a brighter yellow than shown in this image. Cream with a yellow centre is the only colour seen as yet in the Westonia Common.

YELLOW DAMPIERA. Dampiera luteiflora is an inland species. Its range is north as far as Sandstone, west to Watheroo, south to Lake Cronin and east to Kalgoorlie.

In the Westonia Common it was growing with the similarly hairy Dampiera tomentosa. D. tomentosa has a blue flower in which the petals are far less divided and more frilly than those of D. luteiflora in which the petals are deeply divided and not frilly.

NARROW-SPIKED DAMPIERA. Erect many-stemmed shrub which can grow to 0.9 m tall.

It has a fairly small distribution occurring mostly in the area bounded by Badgingarra, McDermid Rock and Coolgardie.

FELTED DAMPIERA. Dampiera tomentosa is a very hairy plant and the species name is derived from the Latin for dense matted hairs. The plant is similar to Dampiera luteiflora but the flower is quite different in colour and shape.

Most collections of this species have been made in Westonia and the surrounding shires. It has a scattered and comparatively small distribution.

WELL'S DAMPIERA. A tufted perennial herb to 0.25 m high with blue flowers and hairless leaves.

WELL'S DAMPIERA. Dampiera wellsiana. These are older flower spikes showing the shape that develops.

Goodenia caerulea has blue flowers with yellow at the centre.

Goodenia caerulea