Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Nullarbor, near SA/WA border

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Arid Lands Botanic Gardens, Port Augusta, SA

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: A Lyne, near Kiata, Vic

Common Name

Sticky Goodenia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1m tall or prostrate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-4cm long, 10-20mm wide, flat, thick, sticky to hairless, edges usually toothed. Flowers yellow, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, borne in groups of 1-3 on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.

Short 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 636

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