Goodenia virgata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Tanami Desert in central Australia.

It is an erect to ascending herb with more or less thick, linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of yellow flowers.

[2][3][4] Goodenia virgata was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen he collected near Yuendumu in 1970.

[3][5] The specific epithet (virgata) means "having long, slender twigs", referring to the appearance of the plant after the fruit has fallen.

[3][6] This goodenia grows in sandy soil in the southern Tanami Desert in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.