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Image Credit: Anna Povey – with permission
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Image Credit: Anna Povey – with permission
Scientific Name: Goodenia radicans
Common Name: shiny swampmat
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Goodeniaceae
Form Description: Small herb with yellowish stem running along or sometimes under the ground.
Height (m): 0.02 – 0.15
Flowers: Solitary, fan-shaped with 5 petals almost white on inside, dull red or purplish-grey outside.
Fruit: Capsule – about 6mm long, succulent. Seeds flattened, brown with a thick irregular white border.
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Habitat Notes
Widespread and locally abundant on the landward margins of saltmarshes, also inland on margins of streams and lakes and on ground subject to flooding.
Site Tolerance
Moist, Waterlogged
Soil Tolerance
Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained
General Notes
Frog habitat.
Propagation Calendar
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Cutting & Division Information
Usually grown from cuttings or by division. Has been successfully propagated from leaf cuttings also. Take either a leaf or leaf plus stem and placing it in cutting medium. Select semi-mature leaves from the stems and set them in a standard cutting medium at a slight angle from the vertical with the stem end of the leaf about 1cm below the surface.