Goodenia glareicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, perennial herb with linear to lance-shaped leaves, and racemes of blue flowers with purplish spots.
Goodenia glareicola is an erect, glabrous or glaucous perennial herb that typically grows to a height of . The leaves at the base of the plant are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, those on the stems smaller. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with leaf-like bracts long at the base. Each flower is on a pedicel usually long with linear to lance-shaped bracteoles long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla blue, about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is an oval capsule long.[1] [2]
Goodenia glareicola was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected in 1931 by William Blackall near Newdegate.[3] The specific epithet (glareicola) means "gravel-inhabiting".[4]
This goodenia grows in gravelly and sandy soil from Mullewa to Lake Grace in the south-west of Western Australia.
Goodenia glareicola is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.