Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Scaevola hookeri

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, Bogong High Plains, Vic

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Coolumbooka near Bombala

Carpet. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Alpine Fan Flower, Creeping Fan Flower

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, heath, and grassland, usually in damp places. Often colonizes bare, moist ground. Widespread, but not on the Western Slopes.

Notes

Perennial herb, prostrate, rooting at the nodes, often forming mats. Stems to 30 cm long, hairy to bristly. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.6–5 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, tips usually blunt, both surfaces sparsely appressed-hairy, margins usually entire. Flowers white or blue, usually yellowish in the throat, 5–8 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes. Flowers single at the bases of the leaves, in leafy elongated clusters mostly to 10 cm long. Fruit dry, wrinkled, hairy.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scaevola~hookeri (accessed 6 February, 2021)