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Goodenia arthrotricha

Goodenia arthrotricha
Photo: Robert Davis, CC BY 3.0

Goodenia arthrotricha is a small erect perennial herb native to south-western Western Australia, growing between granite rocks, with blue flowers in autumn to spring. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are based on general knowledge of Goodenia.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil, rocky or granitic substrate preferred.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost, protect from prolonged freezing.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Goodenia arthrotricha is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and endemic to south-western Western Australia. It is an erect perennial, herb with linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, racemes of blue flowers with linear bracteoles at the base, and oval fruit.

Where it grows

This goodenia grows between granite rocks near Wannamal in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.

Other Goodenia plants

Coopernookia scabridiuscula · Coopernookia strophiolata · Goodenia affinis · White Goodenia · Clasping Goodenia · Goodenia anfracta · Goodenia angustifolia · Goodenia arachnoidea · Goodenia arenicola · Goodenia argillacea · Toothed Velleia · Goodenia armitiana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goodenia arthrotricha 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.

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