''Isotoma scapigera'', commonly known as long-scaped isotome, is a small herbaceous plant in the family ''
Campanulaceae
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants belon ...
'' native to Western Australia.
The erect, annual herb typically grows to a height of . It blooms between September and December producing blue-purple flowers.
It is found in wet depressions, around salt lakes and on sand dunes in the
Mid West
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,
Wheatbelt,
South West
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and
Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in shallow sandy-clay soils.
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References
scapigera
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1834
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