Family: Goodeniaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Old World (Pacific Islands); widely cultivated and invasive along coastlines in the tropics and subtropics.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
A widely cultivated shrub that has become a major invasive weed in the Bahamas, Florida, and elsewhere, especially along the coast.
Comments:
For information and images from Eleuthera, visit the
Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve website.
Synonyms:
Scaevola sericea, Scaevola taccada var.
sericea.
