Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Goodenia stelligera
Common name
Spiked goodenia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Open areas, and near streams and swamps. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.7 m high. Stems almost hairless or hairless. Leaves mostly basal, 5–25 cm long, 1–12 mm wide, thick, hairless, usually glossy, tips pointed or blunt, margins entire or toothed. Flowers yellow, 10–15 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers almost stalkless except sometimes the lowest flowers, in clusters on almost leafless scapes. Flowering: mainly August–February. Seeds elliptic, about 1.5 mm long, brown.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~stelligera (accessed 7 April 2021)
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