Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Scaevola aemula
Common name
Fairy fan-flower
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and roadsides, sometimes colonizing bare ground. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m high or sprawling. Stems coarsely with yellowish to yellowish-brownish appressed hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–9 cm long, 4–31 mm wide, tips blunt or pointed, both surfaces appressed-hairy, margins of at least the lower leaves coarsely toothed. Flowers lilac to bright blue or purple, rarely white or pink, yellowish to white in the throat, 16–25 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes. Flowers in leafy elongated clusters to about 24 cm long. Flowers mainly August–April. Fruit dry, wrinkled, hairy.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scaevola~aemula (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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