This sub-shrub has spreading wiry stems that are covered in minute stiff hairs and forms an open low mounded habit. It has slender dark green leaves and the purple fan-shaped flowers appear singularly over the plant during summer.   

Hardiness zones 8 to 11 

Scaevola ramosissima is naturally found in Australia from Queensland to New South Wales and extends to Victoria growing in open forests and in heathlands. 

It prefers a well drained moderately fertile sandy soil in an open sunny position but will tolerate some shade and is drought and mildly frost resistant. 

The Purple Fan-flower is grown for its flowers and its prostrate habit. It is planted in small gardens or rockeries and used as an understorey plant in bushland settings. It is suitable for coastal regions establishing in 2 to 3 years. It is also grown patio pots or roof gardens tolerating some degree of neglect. ID 2710

Scaevola (SEE-vo-la) ramosissima (rah-mos-ee-SIM-ah)

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