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Goodenia pulchella

Goodenia pulchella
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Goodenia pulchella is a small, erect to ascending perennial herb from south-west Western Australia, with yellow flowers in racemes from September to January. It is a native wildflower of seasonally wet sites, so it suits a native or wildflower garden rather than a typical houseplant.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly during establishment and dry seasons, and let the soil dry slightly between waterings; it favours seasonally wet native sites.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil, ideally with some moisture retention.
Temperature
Suited to mild Mediterranean-type climates; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. & SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Goodenia pulchella is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to ascending herb with lance-shaped leaves mostly at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This goodenia grows in seasonally wet sites between Kalbarri and the Great Australian Bight in the south and 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 pulchella 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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