Conospermum amoenum, commonly known as blue smokebush,[1] is a shrub endemic to Western Australia

Blue smokebush
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Conospermum
Species:	C. amoenum
Binomial name
Conospermum amoenum Meisn.

The erect shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1 metre (1.0 to 3.3 ft) high. It blooms between July and October producing blue-white flowers.

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.[1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meisner in 1845 in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's work, Proteaceae. Plantae Preissianae.[2] Synonyms include Conospermum suaveolensis, Conospermum suaveolente and Conospermum suaveolens.[2]

There are two recognised subspecies:

• Conospermum amoenum subsp. amoenum
• Conospermum amoenum subsp. cuneatum[3]

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