Goodenia varia R.Br.

Ascending to prostrate shrub to 1 m tall, usually viscid when young, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to orbicular, usually dentate; lamina 2-4 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; petiole to 5 mm long. Flowers in thyrses or racemes to 15 cm long; bracts leaf-like; peduncle to 10 mm long; bracteoles triangular, 1 mm long; pedicel to 3 mm long, articulate. Sepals linear, 2-3.5 mm long. Corolla 8-18 mm long, few hairs inside, ±auriculate; abaxial lobes 5-8 mm long; wings c. 1.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly obovate. Ovules to 16. Fruit cylindrical, 8-10 mm long; valves entire. Seeds oblong, 2-2.5 mm long, pale brown, aculeate or reticulate.

Coastal limestone cliffs & dunes on sandy soils. Usually found on clay soils. Grows in spinifex grassland, mallee and coastal communities.

Can be grown by seedlings.