Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Goodenia ovata
Common name
Hop goodenia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, roadsides and disturbed sites. The prostrate form occurs on rocky coastal headlands. Mainly coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall, occasionally prostrate. Very young stems ribbed, densely hairy with brownish hairs, becoming hairless and sticky to varnished. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-8 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, tips pointed, surfaces covered with minute glands, toothed, the teeth at first with glands at their tips, leaf tips pointed. Flowers yellow, 9-19 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks to 40 mm long, in leafy clusters, sometimes single. Flowers all year. Seeds elliptic, about 2 mm long. bristly, pale brown to whitish.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~ovata (accessed 6 April 2021)
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