Westringia eremicola, commonly known as slender westringia or slender western rosemary, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small shrub, with narrow leaves and pink, mauve to white flowers.
Westringia eremicola is a slender shrub growing to high. The leaves are on a petiole long, usually in whorls of three, narrow-elliptic to linear, mostly long, wide. The margins of the leaves are smooth, curved under, and both surfaces have more or less flattened, simple, upright hairs. The flowers are borne in leaf axils, with densely hairy sepals forming a tube long with triangular lobes long. The bracteoles are long and the petals are mauve, purple or occasionally white, long and have orange to brown spots in the throat. Flowering may occur at anytime throughout the year and the fruit is a dark brown, woody capsule up to long.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Westringia eremicola was first formally described in 1834 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham and the description was published in Bentham's book Labiatarum Genera et Species.[5] [6] The specific epithet (eremicola) means "desert dweller".
Slender westringia grows in mallee on sandy soils in Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.[1] Associated species include Calytrix tetragona, as well as Acacia, Daviesia, Leptospermum, Leucopogon and Triodia species.[7]