Eremophila racemosa, also known as Showy Eremophila, is a shrub which is native to Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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Description

Plants are usually between 0.5 and 1.7 metres in height and produce purple, pink, red or white flowers between the end of winter and the start of summer (August to December in their native range).

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described in Stirpium Australasicarum Herbarii Hugeliani Decades Tres by botanist Stephan Endlicher in 1838 and given the name Stenochilus racemosus. The species was transferred into the genus Eremophila by Ferdinand von Mueller

Ferdinand von Mueller

Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...

in 1859.

Distribution

It occurs on loamy soils on undulating plains and roadsides in the south-west of the state.