It is a glaucous, erect, ascending perennial herb with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves and racemes of pale yellow flowers.

Goodenia glauca is a glaucous, ascending perennial herb that typically grows to a height of 20 cm (7.9 in) and is more or less glabrous.

Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about 6 mm (0.24 in) in diameter.

[2][3][4][5] Goodenia glauca was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science.

[6][7] The specific epithet (glauca) means "having a bluish-grey or bluish-green bloom".