Halgania solanacea

Halgania solanacea is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is a small, perennial herb or shrub with purple-blue flowers and grows to 0.15–1 m (5.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) high. It grows in sand, gravelly soils, rocky hillsides and dunes in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Halgania solanacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Boraginales
Family:	Boraginaceae
Genus:	Halgania
Species:	H. solanacea
Binomial name
Halgania solanacea F.Muell.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1857 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany.^[2][3]