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Goodenia expansa

Goodenia expansa is a prostrate annual or short-lived perennial herb from central Queensland, grown mainly as a botanical or native-garden curiosity rather than a common ornamental. It is not a commonly cultivated plant, so care guidance is drawn largely from general knowledge of arid-zone goodenias.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Annual, Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy loam soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; tolerates heat but protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Goodenia expansa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an annual or short-lived perennial herb with narrow elliptic to lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, and leafy racemes of pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers.

Where it grows

This goodenia grows on sandplain with Corymbia terminalis and species of Triodia near Winton in central Queensland.

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 expansa 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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