Botanical Name
Halgania anagalloides var. Southern
Common Name
Blu Bush
Description
Southern Halgania is a compact coastal native shrub renowned for its eye-catching purple-blue flowers and distinctive ericoid foliage. This attractive species produces purple-blue flowers with five petals and distinctive cone-like stamens, carried in terminal or axillary clusters of two or three, flowering mainly September to February with sporadic flowering at other times. The grey-green, oval leaves with wavy, prickly toothed margins are tough and ericoid in nature, providing attractive fine-textured evergreen foliage. Hardy and drought tolerant once established, it thrives in sandy, lateritic, or granite soils and full sun positions. Perfect for coastal planting, cottage gardens and borders.
Plant Category
Small Shrubs
Size (H x W)
1 m × 1 m
Habitat
Halgania anagalloides var. Southern is endemic to southwestern Western Australia, growing close to the coast from east of Cape Arid National Park west towards Bunbury and Mandurah, and north inland to just north of Geraldton, thriving in sandy, lateritic, and granite soils in dry sclerophyll shrubland and woodland.
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