Eremophila praecox
Eremophila praecox is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a small, broom-like shrub with small leaves and purple and white flowers. Description Eremophila praecox is a broom-shaped shrub which grows to a height of between . The branches have a covering of branched hairs, especially near the tips and are also slightly sticky near the ends due to a covering of resin. The leaves are mostly arranged in opposite pairs and are linear in shape to almost cylindrical, mostly long, about wide, sparsely hairy and sticky when young but become glabrous as they mature. The flowers are borne singly, sometimes in pairs in leaf axils on hairy stalks long. There are 5 green to purplish-black, egg-shaped to narrow lance-shaped, hairy sepals which are long. The petals are long and are joined at their lower end to form a tube. The petal tube is purple, tinged white on the outside, while the inside of the tube and lower part of the lobes are white, spotted purple. There are a few hairs on the outside of the petal tube but the inside surface of the petal lobes is glabrous while the tube is