Conospermum amoenum, commonly known as blue smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia

The erect shrub typically grows to a height of high. It blooms between July and October producing blue-white flowers.

Conospermum amoenum

It is found on ironstone hills and uplands in the southern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia where it grows in sandy to sandy clay soils often containing lateritic gravel.

Conospermum amoenum

The species was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meisner in 1845 in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's work, Proteaceae. Plantae Preissianae. Synonyms include Conospermum suaveolensis, Conospermum suaveolente and Conospermum suaveolens.

Conospermum amoenum

There are two recognised subspecies: Conospermum amoenum subsp. amoenum Conospermum amoenum subsp. cuneatum

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Eudicots of Western Australia

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Endemic flora of Western Australia

Plants described in 1845