Goodenia glauca, commonly known as pale goodenia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the drier inland areas of eastern continental Australia. It is a glaucous, erect, ascending perennial herb with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves and racemes of pale yellow flowers.
Goodenia glauca is a glaucous, ascending perennial herb that typically grows to a height of and is more or less glabrous. It has lance-shaped to elliptic leaves long, wide and sometimes toothed, at the base of the plant. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla pale yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.[2] [3] [4]
Goodenia glauca was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science.[5] [6] The specific epithet (glauca) means "having a bluish-grey or bluish-green bloom".[7]
This goodenia mainly grows on floodplains and river banks on heavy soils in the drier inland areas of Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.