Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Goodenia fascicularis

Common name

Silky Goodenia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Variety of plant communities including pastures and moist sites. Western Slopes.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.3 m tall. Stems bristly and sometimes cottony-hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette and alternating up the stems. Basal leaves 2-14 cm long, 4-25 mm wide, hairy to bristly, often slightly sticky, margins lobed, toothed, or entire. Stem leaves smaller, entire. Flowers yellow, 12–23 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowers on stalks 20–70 mm long, single or in open clusters. Flowering: throughout the year but chiefly spring. Seeds round, about 5 mm in diameter, brown, wing about 1 mm wide.

Extremely variable.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~fascicularis (accessed 5 April 2021)