Flower. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Joe McAuliffe, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Common Name

Small-Flowered Goodenia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial forb to 20cm tall or sprawling.  Leaves mainly basal, 1.5-8cm long, 5-15mm wide, flat, sparsely hairy, toothed to deeply lobed, or with almost entire edges,  tips blunt.  Stem leaves smaller, only at the bases of the flower stalks.  Flowers yellow, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, borne singly on long stalks arising at the bases of the leaves or at the tops of the stems. 

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 635

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