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Scaevola auriculata

Scaevola auriculata
Photo: Alison Bunker, CC BY 4.0

Scaevola auriculata is a low, straggling perennial herb from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly as a native groundcover for its blue or purple flowers. It needs well-drained soil and full sun to part shade in a mild climate.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Scaevola auriculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low-lying, straggling or ascending perennial herb with stem-clasping, elliptic to oblong and toothed leaves, blue or purple flowers and smooth oval fruit.

Where it grows

This species of Scaevola is found in woodland in and around the Porongurup Range in the Jarrah Forest bioregion of south-western Western Australia

Other Scaevola plants

Naupaka · Scaevola acacioides · Common Fanflower · White Fan Flower · Scaevola amblyanthera · Scaevola anchusifolia · Scaevola angulata · Scaevola angustata · Scaevola archeriana · Scaevola argentea · Scaevola ballajupensis · Scaevola basedowii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scaevola auriculata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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