Goodenia lanata

Botanical Name: Goodenia lanata
Common Name: Trailing native-primrose
Family: Goodeniaceae
Size: Prostrate x 0.6-1.5m W
Leaves: 1-7cm long, blade with toothed or lobed margins (edges), obovate, narrowing to a long stem. Upper surface dark green with scattered hairs, light green below.

Flowers: Yellow with three spreading lower lobes and two erect upper lobes, and deeper colour in the centre with petal margins slightly wavy, solitary.
Flowering Time: Spring/summer
Fruit: An ovoid capsule.
Habitat/distribution: Widespread, variable, dry to moist sites from coastal heath to woodlands. Also Vic.
Where to See: Throughout the north, north east, midlands and south east in Tasmania. Freycinet and Tasman National Parks and some bushland parks and gardens; Wellington Park lower areas, Knocklofty and Peter Murrell Reserves; also along roadsides.
Other notes: Suitable for growing in well drained, moist soil with some sun. Forms from the Midlands are frost hardy while coastal forms are not.