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Goodenia anfracta, the zig-zag hand-flower, is a low, prostrate desert shrub from central Australia that bears small yellow flowers. It grows only in saline sand near salty springs or salt lakes, so it is rarely cultivated and care depends on replicating those dry, saline conditions.
Goodenia anfracta, commonly known as zig-zag hand-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is a prostrate or low-lying shrub with linear and lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves, small racemes of yellow flowers with small, leaf-like bracteoles at the base, and more or less spherical fruit.
Zig-zag hand-flower grows in saline sand, near salty springs or salt lakes in northern South Australia, southern parts of the Northern Territory and central-eastern Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goodenia anfracta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
