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Northern Velleia

Goodenia mystrophylla

Also called Wild Pansies

Northern Velleia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Goodenia mystrophylla, Northern Velleia, is a low perennial herb from the Goodenia family with yellow, purple-marked flowers, grown mainly as a garden or coastal groundcover. Its key to growing it is full sun and well-drained sandy soil, as it is native to sand dunes.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy soil or a light, gritty mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. New Guinea to E. Australia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Goodenia mystrophylla is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to eastern Australia and New Guinea. It is a small, perennial herb with lance-shaped leaves, prostrate or low-lying flower stems and yellow flowers with purplish markings.

Where it grows

Goodenia mystrophylla grows in sandy soil, usually on sand dunes, from Cape York in Queensland to Narrabeen in New South Wales. It also occurs in western New Guinea and in the Louisiade Archipelago.

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 mystrophylla 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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