Conospermum nervosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, much-branched shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves, and spikes of blue to pink, tube-shaped flowers.
Conospermum nervosum is a small, erect or spreading, multi-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of, sometimes to . It has oblong to egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrow end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are blue, rarely pale pink, arranged in a head of spikes of up to 20, the flowers forming a tube long. The upper lip is elliptic, long, wide, the lower lip joined for long with narrowly D-shaped lobes long and about . Flowering mostly occurs from August to February and the fruit is a hairy, cream-coloured nut about long wide.[1] [2]
Conospermum nervosum was first formally described in 1855 by the botanist Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany from specimens collected by James Drummond.[3] [4] The specific epithet (nervosum) means 'abounding in nerves', referring to the many veins in the leaves.[5]
This species of Conospermum is found on hill slopes and sand plains along the west coast to the north of Perth between Hill River and Eneabba in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils in kwongan.