Scientific Name: Goodenia lanata

Common Name: trailing native-primrose

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Goodeniaceae

Form Description: Spreading, carpet forming perennial herb with a slender tap-root.

Flowers: Yellow irregular flowers, 2 cm across, with 5 winged petals.

Fruit: Paper capsule – 6-7 mm long, ovoid-cylindric. Seeds yellowish, surface rough, wing vestigial.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonBurnieCentral HighlandsClarenceDerwent ValleyDevonportDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyKentishKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Common in dry heathlands and woodlands. Abundant in dry pastures and on open hillsides. Colonises open ground after fire or disturbance.

Site Tolerance

Dry, Moist

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Sandy, Well-drained

Frost Tolerance

Hardy

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Seed, Cuttings, Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Easy to propagate from seed.

Seed Treatment Method

Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.

Seed Treatment Notes

Some perennial species germinate quickly while others can take several months.

Cutting & Division Information

Easy from cuttings. Division is quickest. Best to grow from cuttings to avoid disease, then divide the cutting grown plant.