About Conospermum nervosum Meisn.
Conospermum nervosum Meisn. is a small, erect or spreading, multi-branched shrub. It usually grows 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in) tall, and sometimes reaches a height of 1 m (3 ft 3 in). Its leaves are oblong to egg-shaped, occasionally with the narrower end positioned toward the base, and measure 9 to 55 mm (0.35 to 2.17 in) long and 1.5 to 13 mm (0.059 to 0.512 in) wide. The flowers are most commonly blue, and rarely pale pink. They are arranged in clustered head-like spikes that hold up to 20 flowers, and form a tube 2 to 3 mm (0.079 to 0.118 in) long. The upper lip of the flower is elliptic, 3.0 to 3.5 mm (0.12 to 0.14 in) long and 1.5 to 2.0 mm (0.059 to 0.079 in) wide. The lower lip is fused along 2.8 to 3.5 mm (0.11 to 0.14 in) of its length, and has narrowly D-shaped lobes that are 0.5 to 0.75 mm (0.020 to 0.030 in) long and about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) wide. Flowering occurs mainly from August to February. The fruit is a hairy, cream-coloured nut that is about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and wide. This species of Conospermum grows on hill slopes and sand plains along the west coast north of Perth, between the Hill River and Eneabba. It occurs in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia, where it grows in sandy soils within kwongan vegetation.
