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Scaevola cunninghamii

Scaevola cunninghamii
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
NW. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Scaevola cunninghamii is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae, and is native to the north-west of Western Australia. It is spreading perennial herb, shrub or subshrub with sessile, linear to lance-shaped leaves, with the narrower end towards the base, and sometimes toothed, loose spikes, thyrses or cymes of blue or white flowers and spherical and grooved fruit.

Where it grows

This species of scaevola occurs in the Pilbara region of north-western Western Australia where it usually grows near the coast on sand, in sandhills and limestone rises, in the Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Murchison, Pilbara, and Yalgoo biogeographic regions.

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 cunninghamii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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