This species is primarily coastal, occurring in coastal dunes along the western and southern coast of the former Cape Province,
South Africa. The low-growing variety
villosa, with hairy (villose) leaflets, is exclusively coastal. However, the hairless variety
Searsia laevigata var.
laevigata, while occurring along the coast, also extends inland as far as the
Little Karoo in the north, and
Bredasdorp in the west. ==Notes==