Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Lake Moore SE of Paynes Find, WA

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Lake Moore SE of Paynes Find, WA

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, ACT

Common Name

Scrambled Eggs, Mother Ducks, Cut-leaved Goodenia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial forb, prostrate or to 40cm tall.  Leaves mainly basal, 2-10cm long, 3-20mm wide, flat, hairless or hairy, margins lobed or toothed.  Stem leaves small, mostly lobed, often absent.  Flowers yellow, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, borne singly or in groups of 3-5 flowers on long 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 634-635

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