It is a perennial, much-branched, small shrub has white to blue flowers and endemic to Western Australia.

Scaevola virgata is a perennial herb or subshrub to 0.1–0.4 m (3.9 in – 1 ft 3.7 in) high with needle-shaped stems covered in long, soft, fine hairs.

Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is globe to cylinder-shaped, up to 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter, wrinkled and smooth.

[2][3] Scaevola virgata was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Carolin and the description was published in Telopea.

[6] This scaevola grows in heath or scrubland in rocky soils on the Ogilvie Plains and Watheroo.