page_title: Eremophila spathulata
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Eremophila spathulata / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Eremophila spathulata growing 16.3km along Neds Creek Road
context_page_description: Eremophila spathulata, commonly known as spoon-leaved eremophila, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with many tangled branches, stiff, grey, spoon-shaped leaves, reddish-purple sepals and blue, pink or violet petals.
context_section_description: Eremophila spathulata is a shrub with many tangled branches and which grows to a height of between 0.6 and 1.0 m (2 and 3 ft). It branches and leaves are covered with a layer of tangled, silvery-grey hairs which are pressed against the surface. The leaves are thick, stiff and egg-shaped, spoon-shaped or lance-shaped, mostly 17–30 mm (0.7–1 in) long and 6–14 mm (0.2–0.6 in) wide.
  
  The flowers are usually borne singly in leaf axils on stalks 7.5–13 mm (0.3–0.5 in) long with the same hairy covering as the leaves. There are 5 overlapping, hairy, reddish-purple to purple, lance-shaped to egg-shaped sepals which are about 9–17 mm (0.4–0.7 in) long. The petals are about 25 mm (0.98 in) long and are joined at their lower end to form a tube. The petal tube and lobes are blue, pink or violet. The outer surface of the petal tube and lobes is hairy, the inner surface of the lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with woolly hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs between July and October and is followed by fruits which are dry, woody, oval-shaped, 5.5–9 mm (0.2–0.4 in) long and have a hairy, papery covering.
caption: E. spathulata growing near Kumarina
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