Scientific Name: Scaevola hookeri

Common Name: creeping fanflower

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Goodeniaceae

Form Description: Prostrate – creeping perennial herb; stems to 30cm long.

Flowers: Shortly stalked with 5 white petals each with red or brown on the back.

Fruit: Drupe – white, slightly fleshy, in two parts with one seed in each part.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral HighlandsCircular HeadClarenceDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
HeathRiparian
Habitat Notes

Widespread in wet heaths, sea level to alpine and sub-alpine and on margins of coastal lagoons and saltmarshes.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Cuttings, Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Most species difficult to grow from seed.

Seed Treatment Notes

Seed can take several months to germinate. Some species respond to smoke, some to cold but no definite information for this species as yet.

Cutting & Division Information

Propagation by division or from cuttings.