Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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