Spreading Goodenia

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Goodenia heteromera


Mat-forming plant with long lance-shaped leaves to 10 cm, slightly broader towards the tip and occasionally toothed, both surfaces sparsely covered in downy hairs. Single yellow flowers with five petals held in groups of two and three on erect stems.


Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Distinctive Features

Plant vigorously stoloniferous with clumps of leaves along the creeping stolons. Stems with sharp stiff flattened hairs, cottony on young plants.

Biology

Perennial. Moist to winter-wet soils in grassy wetlands. Seed becomes jelly-like on wetting and sticks it to the soil to aid germination, an adaptation for dry environments.

Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Sep-Jan

Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Asterales
Family
Goodeniaceae
Genus
Goodenia
Species
lanata

The leaves of some Goodenia species were used for medicinal purposes by Aboriginal people.


Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native