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Scaevola thesioides is a spreading subshrub to perennial herb from south-western Western Australia, growing up to about 1 m with thread-like leaves and pale blue to white fan-shaped flowers. It is a sun-loving, drought-tolerant native suited to sandy, well-drained soils.
Scaevola thesioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spreading subshrub to perennial herb with thread-like to lance-shaped leaves and hairy, fan-shaped, pale blue to white flowers.
This scaevola grows in near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scaevola thesioides 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.
