This perennial has slender hairy soft textured stems that are spreading and form a prostrate habit. It has rounded dark green leaves and the blue or white fan-shaped flowers appear singly during summer. 

Hardiness zones 9 to 11 

Scaevola albida is naturally found in Australia from Queensland to New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia growing in open woodlands on the coast to the tablelands and the western slopes. 

It prefers an open sunny position on a moderately fertile moist, but well drained soil and is frost and drought tender but salt spray tolerant.

The Pale Fan-flower is grown for its flowers and its spreading habit. It is planted in parks and gardens as a groundcover or on embankments establishing in 1 to 2 years. It is suitable for coastal and inland gardens and may be grown in containers or rockeries. ID 2412

Scaevola (SEE-vo-la) albida (al-BID-ah)

Goodeniaceae (goo-DEN-AY-see-ee)