Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Goodenia pinnatifida
Common name
Cutleaf goodenia, Scrambled eggs
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites, roadsides, and moist areas. Western Slopes, tablelands, and the ACT.
Notes
Perennial herb, prostrate or to 0.4 m tall. Stems hairless to hairy. Leaves mainly basal, 2-10 cm long, 3-20 mm wide, hairless or hairy, margins dissected or toothed, tips blunt. Stem leaves smaller, often absent. Flowers 8-25 mm long, to 28 mm in diameter, yellow, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks 20–120 mm long, in leafy clusters. Flowers most of the year. The leaves often wither before flowering is completed. Seeds more or less circular, about 5 mm long, glossy black, almost smooth; wing about 0.5 mm wide, white.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~pinnatifida (accessed 6 April 2021)
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