Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Goodenia glomerata

Flower cluster. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Morton National Park

Plants. Photographer Casey Gibson, Beecroft Peninsula, Jervis Bay

Common name

A goodenia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Dry forest, wet heath, rocky areas, swamps and seepages. Coast, ranges, and Southern Highlands, between Moss Vale and Budawang National Park, and east to Jervis Bay.

Notes

Herb to 0.5 m high, woody at the base, yellowish to grey-hairy when young. Leaves mostly towards the base, mostly 6–20 cm long, 10–22 mm wide, margins toothed to lobed. Flowers yellow, 20–30 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers almost stalkless, in clusters to 12 cm long on almost leafless scapes. Flowering: chiefly October–January. Seeds elliptic to round, about 1.5 mm long, brown.

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