Goodenia pumilio is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea.

It is a prostrate, stolon-forming herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves in rosettes, and racemes of small, dark reddish-purple flowers.

Goodenia pumilio is a prostrate, stolon-forming herb with stems up to 50 cm (20 in) with scattered, star-shaped hairs.

Flowering mainly occurs from April to July and the fruit is an oval capsule about 2 mm (0.079 in) long.

[2][3] Goodenia pumilio was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.