Eremophila rhegos

Description

Eremophila rhegos is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy leaves and branches and blue, mauve, purple or white flowers.Eremophila rhegos is a shrub with many branches and which grows to a height of between 0.8 and 1.5 m (3 and 5 ft). The branches and leaves are covered with a dense layer of branched, greyish-white hairs. The branches are thick and rough due to the presence of persistent, raised leaf bases. The leaves are crowded near the ends of the branches, overlapping each other. They are thick, elliptic to lance-shaped, mostly 16–24 mm (0.6–0.9 in) long, 4.5–9 mm (0.2–0.4 in) wide and have an obvious mid-vein.