Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush heritage Reserve via Augathella, Qld

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, NE of Goolgowi, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, NE of Goolgowi, NSW

Leaves and flower bud. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Condobolin, NSW

Seed case and seeds. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Condobolin, NSW

Common Name

Smooth Goodenia, Shiny Pansy

Family

Goodeniaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial forb to 30cm tall, prostrate to sprawling. Leaves basal and alternating along the stems. Basal leaves 3-9cm long, 7-11mm wide, stem leaves smaller, broader, with a single lobe near the base. Leaves flat, almost hairless, toothed to lobed. Flowers tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 yellow lobes, solitary on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 632

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~glabra