This small suckering shrub has a prostrate habit with slender woody stems. It has small narrow dull green wedge-shaped leaves and the blue wheel-shaped flowers appear in clusters from spring to summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11

Halgania cyaneais naturally found in the drier western and southern regions of Australia growing in well drained moderately fertile stony-sandy soils in an open sunny position and tolerates drought or high temperatures and frost.

The Mallee Blue Flower is a small shrub that is grown for its flowers and low habit. It is used small gardens or rockeries as a specimen or as a ground cover. It is also grown in containers and as a spill-over plant. It establishes in 2 to 3 years and is suitable for arid or coastal gardens tolerating a wide range of conditions. ID 1926

Halgania(hal-GAN-ee-ah) cyanea(sy-A-nee-ah)

Boraginaceae(BOR-ah-jin-AY-see-ee)
Lungwort