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Sandhill Goodenia

Goodenia willisiana

Sandhill Goodenia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Sandhill goodenia is a small, low-growing perennial herb from drier parts of south-eastern Australia, with woolly grey-white foliage and yellow flowers. It is best grown in full sun with very well-drained, sandy soil and little water.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy, very well-drained soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates frost once established, but protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia, S. South Australia to Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Goodenia willisiana, commonly known as sandhill goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to drier areas of south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or ascending perennial herb with crowded elliptic to lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, and yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This goodenia grows in western New South Wales, north-western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia, often on sandhills and in mallee communities.

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 willisiana 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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