It is a prostrate or low-lying perennial herb with hairy, egg-shaped leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Goodenia lanata is a low-lying to prostrate perennial herb with stems 30–50 cm (12–20 in) long and covered with soft, silvery-grey hairs.

Flowering mainly occurs from September to March and the fruit is an oval to cylindrical capsule 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long.

[3][4] The species was first formally described in 1810 by botanist Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

[7] Trailing goodenia grows in heath, grassy woodland and open forest.