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Goodenia pumilio

Goodenia pumilio
Photo: Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0
Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Annual
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Papua New Guinea to N. Australia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Goodenia pumilio is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is a prostrate, stolon-forming herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves in rosettes, and racemes of small, dark reddish-purple flowers.

Where it grows

This goodenia grows in marshes and swamps in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, northern parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland and in New Guinea.

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 pumilio by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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