It is a small, erect shrub with ridged stems, elliptic to egg-shaped, cauline leaves, racemes of white flowers with leaf-like bracteoles at the base, and oval fruit.

Goodenia albiflora is an erect, glaucous shrub that typically grows to a height of 70 cm (28 in) and has ridged stems.

Flowering mainly occurs from October to January and the fruit is an oval capsule about 10 mm (0.39 in) long.

[2][3] Goodenia albiflora was first formally described in 1847 by Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal in the journal Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde.

[6] White goodenia grows in stony soil on steep slopes in woodland from the Eyre Peninsula to the Flinders Ranges and Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia.