Pink Velleia

Goodenia rosea is an annual herb, with prostrate to ascending flowering stems, the leaves lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to more or less toothed or pinnatisect. The leaves are 30–70 mm (1.2–2.8 in) long and 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) wide. The bracteoles are leaf-like and usually free from each other, the lower ones up to 15 mm (0.59 in) long and toothed or incised. The flowers are borne on a prostrate to ascending flowering stem up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long, each flower on a glabrous pedicel 5–22 mm (0.20–0.87 in) long. The 5 sepals are hairy, 4.5–5.0 mm (0.18–0.20 in) long and the petals are pink, lilac or white, about 13 mm (0.51 in) long and hairy on the back and in the throat. Flowering mainly occurs from May to October, and the fruit is a compressed capsule containing a more or less round, wrinkled seed 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) in diameter with a wing 1 mm (0.039 in) wide.

Goodenia rosea occurs in the area between Kalgoorlie, Cowcowing and near Geraldton in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor and Yalgoo IBRA regions of inland Western Australia.