Scaevola taccada(Gaertn.) Roxb.

beach naupaka

WFO wfo-0001065157 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Scaevola taccada, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. a Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 201087538
Scaevola taccada, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. b Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204325954
Scaevola taccada, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. c Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203651175
Scaevola taccada, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. d Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199542531
Scaevola taccada, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. e Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199538242
Scaevola taccada, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. f Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199542242
Scaevola taccada, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. g Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199542601
Scaevola taccada, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. h Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199551586

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Flowering n = 1,076 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,076 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 36 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.

  • Lobelia frutescens Mill.
  • Lobelia koenigii (Vahl) Saff.
  • Lobelia piliplena Kuntze
  • Lobelia sericea Kuntze
  • Lobelia sericea var. koenigii (Vahl) Kuntze
  • Lobelia velutina Kuntze
  • Roemeria lobelia Dennst.
  • Scaevola bela-modagani Schult.
  • Scaevola billardierei D.Dietr.
  • Scaevola billardieri Dieter.
  • Scaevola chlorantha de Vriese
  • Scaevola fauriei H.Lév.
  • Scaevola frutescens (Mill.) K.Krause
  • Scaevola frutescens f. glabra (Matsum.) Hatus.
  • Scaevola frutescens f. moomomiana O.Deg. & Greenwell
  • Scaevola frutescens var. koenigii (Vahl) Domin
  • Scaevola frutescens var. sericea (Vahl) Merr.
  • Scaevola koenigii Vahl
  • Scaevola koenigii var. glabra Matsum.
  • Scaevola koenigii var. macrocalyx Miq.
  • Scaevola lambertiana de Vriese
  • Scaevola latevaga Hance ex Walp
  • Scaevola lativaga Hance
  • Scaevola leschenaultii DC.

and 12 more.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.