Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Scaevola ramosissima

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flower and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Purple Fan-flower, Snake Flower, Hairy Fan-flower

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and heath. Sometimes colonises bare ground. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.6 m high or sprawling. Stems bristly, sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–10 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, tips usually pointed, both surfaces bristly, margins entire or toothed and often curved down. Flowers 15–30 mm long, pinkish-mauve or mauve to purple or violet, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes. Flowers on stalks to to 10 cm long, in leafy elongated clusters to 30 cm long, sometimes single at the bases of the leaves. Flowering: chiefly August–March. Fruit dry, strongly ribbed, hairy to bristly.

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