Westringia dampieri (Shore Westringia)

Westringia dampieri flower

Photograph by Kevin Thiele from Perth. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

Westringia dampieri habit

Photograph by Government of South Australia, Dpt. of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

Growth Characteristics information is sourced from: State Flora Catalog, Government of South Australia Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

SHORE WESTRINGIA FACTS

distribution map showing range of Westringia dampieri in Australia

Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License

Common Name
Shore Westringia

Description
The Shore Westringia is a coastal shrub growing to 1.5 m tall. The leaves are in whorls around the stem, growing 8 mm to 27 mm long, and 1.5 mm to 2.5 mm wide. The plant flowers in winter, spring and summer between June and January. The flowers are white with the upper petal divided into two lobes.

Habitat
coastal and near-coastal areas

Distribution
The Shore Westringia is found around south and west coasts of Western Australia up to about Shark Bay.

Growth Characteristics
Height (m): 1
Spread (m): 1
Soil Texture: sand, loam
Soil pH: acid soils, neutral soils, alkaliine soils
Frost Sensitivity: moderately sensitive
Minimum Rainfall (mm): 450
Flower Colour: white / pink
Flower Season: spring, summer

(source: SA State Flora Catalog)

Classification

Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Genus:	Westringia
Species:	dampieri
Common Name:	Shore Westringia

Relatives in same Genus
  Westringia brevifolia
  Westringia eremicola
  Westringia fruticosa
  Westringia glabra
  Westringia rigida