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Slender Goodenia

Goodenia gracilis

Slender Goodenia
Photo: Alexander N. Schmidt-Lebuhn, CC BY 3.0 au

Slender goodenia is a small Australian herb, annual or perennial, growing to about 50 cm with yellow flowers on slender spikes. It is a wild plant of inland dry country and is rarely grown in gardens, so care is mainly about matching its natural conditions.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Annual, Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Heavy, moisture-retaining clay or loam soil.
Temperature
Tolerates warm inland conditions; frost tolerance not documented.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland to Victoria
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Goodenia gracilis, commonly known as slender goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an annual or perennial herb with linear to lance-shaped leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This goodenia grows in heavy, moisture-retaining soil of inland parts of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and scattered locations in the Northern Territory.

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 gracilis 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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