Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Coopernookia barbata
Common name
Purple goodenia, Purple coopernookia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Dry forest and shrubland, sometimes in rocky areas. Coast, ranges, and the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 1m tall. Stems approximately cylindrical, ribbed, hairy, somewhat sticky, becoming rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–4 cm long, 1–8 mm wide, mostly linear, 1–2 mm wide, margins entire or nearly so, rolled down, or sometimes the leaves 2–8 mm wide with the margins more or less toothed, upper surface with glandular hairs or more or less hairless, lower surface hairless or sparsely hairy. Flowers blue, or mauve to pinkish purple, 10–20 mm long, tubular, the tube slit on the lower side, and 5 lobes. Flowering: throughout the year.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Coopernookia~barbata (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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