Eremophila clarkei is a shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...

 which is native to Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Description

This species is slender and erect in habit and usually grows to between 0.3 and 3 metres in height. Its flowers are white, pink, blue or purple and appear from early autumn to mid spring (March to October in Australia).

Taxonomy

The first formal description of this species appeared in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae in 1859 and is attributed to botanist 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:...

 and plant collector Augustus Oldfield.