Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Goodenia glabra
Common name
A Goodenia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas, and other open sites. Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to 0.3 m tall, prostrate to sprawling. Stems hairless or with cottony hairs. Leaves basal and alternating along the stems. Basal leaves 3-9 cm long, 7-11 mm wide, narrowing towards the base, margins wavy to lobed. Stem leaves smaller, broader, not narrowing, with a basal lobe on one side. Leaves almost hairless, toothed to lobed. Flowers yellow, 10–18 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowers on stalks to 35 mm long, appearing single, in leafy elongated clusters. Seeds oblong to elliptic, about 3 mm long, brownish, more or less bristly.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~glabra (accessed 5 April 2021)
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