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Scaevola browniana

Scaevola browniana
Photo: M. Fagg, CC BY 4.0

Scaevola browniana is a native Australian shrub of arid and semi-arid country, growing to about 1 m with blue to white flowers in terminal spikes. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care depends on dry, sunny, well-drained conditions typical of its desert habitat.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; established plants need little.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
15–35 °C; protect from frost below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Scaevola browniana is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae, endemic to Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Where it grows

In Western Australia, Scaevola browniana is found in the IBRA bioregions of Little Sandy Desert, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Victoria Bonaparte (i.e, in Beard's Eremaean and Northern Provinces).

Other Scaevola plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scaevola browniana 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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