Scaevola calendulacea(Andrews) Druce

WFO wfo-0000497659 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-15 / obs. 188227178
Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173811682
Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. c Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165707809
Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Kiri Bee
fig. d Kiri Bee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105100946
Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. e Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69537306
Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Will Cornwell
fig. f Will Cornwell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57209138
Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Kiri Bee
fig. g Kiri Bee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99950710
Scaevola calendulacea, photographed by Vale Jenny Conolly
fig. h Vale Jenny Conolly, CC0 1.0 / obs. 55521737

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Scaevola calendulacea is native: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia New South WalesQueenslandSouth AustraliaVictoriaWestern Australia
Native distribution of Scaevola calendulacea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 186 in flower of 196 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Scaevola calendulacea observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 186 of 196 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Goodenia calendulacea Andrews
  • Lobelia calendulacea Kuntze
  • Merkusia suaveolens (R.Br.) de Vriese
  • Scaevola suaveolens R.Br.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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