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Goodenia kingiana

Goodenia kingiana
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Goodenia kingiana is an erect, sticky-haired shrub from Western Australia, bearing yellow flowers from July to October. It is a wild Australian native with little cultivation history, so care advice is drawn mainly from general knowledge of arid-zone Goodenia.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil, ideally laterite-like; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
Tolerates warm to hot conditions; protect from frost, roughly below 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Goodenia kingiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with deeply-lobed or divided leaves and racemes or thyrses of yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This goodenia grows at the base of laterite breakaways near Cue in the Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions 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 kingiana 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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