All Wildflowers

One sided bottlebrush

One-sided Bottlebrush

This Calothamnus looks to be a very tough woody shrub growing to about 2m high. Thick flattened leaves with conspicuous ribbing, and ending in a sharp point. The bright red flowers are about 4cm long.

Banksia coccinea

Erect open woody shrub to 4 or 5m high. Leaves ovate or roughly rectangular with toothed margins. Flowers are arranged in short cylindrical spikes about 6-7cm long and 7cm in diameter.

Barrier Saltbush

Prostrate to erect shrub, 0.1-0.6(-2) m high. Fl. May to Sep. Variety of soils, often saline.

Barrens Regelia

Pincushion Hakea

The flowers of this shrub or small tree open as a pale cream and later turn red. It can grow in gravel, clay and also sandy soils. The branches are slim and of a reddish brown colour.

Barrens Regelia

Sparsely branched woody shrub to 3m. Oval leaves about 1cm long in 4 distinct rows along the stems, slightly grey in colour.

Pear Fruited Mallee

A medium sized mallee to 4m. Large rounded buds, 2-2.5cm across. Large showy flowers variable in colour ranging from cream through pink to red. Fruit (gumnut) large and flattened.

Barrens Regelia

A large shrub to about 3 metres with attractive, greyish green, velvety leaves to about 13mm long. The large clusters of brilliant red/orange flowers (occasionally yellow) open in spring and are well

Tasmanian Waratah

Endemic to Tasmania, with a more open flower than NSW's emblem.

Waratah

The official floral emblem for the State of NSW. Shrubs with 1 or a few erect, slender, stems to 3m high, arising from a woody underground lignotuber. Stems often do not branch.

Swamp Spider Orchid

A common orchid that has up to three red greenish-yellow and cream flowers.Spreading petals, narrowly clubbed lateral sepals and a white or greenish yellow red tipped projecting labellum.

Bean Tree, Bauhinia

Also known as Lysiphyllum gilvum. Large shrub or small tree to about 6 m high, partly deciduous in dry season. Glabrous (smooth) except for flowers that vary in colour from whitish through pink to

Sturt's Desert pea

A spreading vine that can vary in size and habit, with large plants sometimes standing semi-erect, up to 1m tall. Germinates and flowers rapidly after rain. Colour variants are sometimes found.

Red Lechenaultia

Eye popping brilliant red or orange-red flowers almost dwarf this low shrub. It only grows to 20cm tall, and often is much smaller. May be prostrate or upright. Leaves about 5mm long.

Red Lechenaultia

This was the only one of these I found during a long trip covering hundreds of km's in WA. I was hooning along the Nullarbor when a flash of red caught my eye - this plant! Stunning!

Mountain Pea

Tentative Identification. Spindly, small branched shrub to 1.5 m with leaves 4-6cm long.

Mt Finke Grevillea

Grevillea treueriana, also known known as Mount Finke grevillea, is a shrub that is endemic to Mount Finke in South Australia. It is listed as vulnerable under the EPBC Act.

Red Kangaroo Paws

Velvety crimson flower heads are a striking sight in the bush or along roadsides. Tufted plant up to 1m tall when flowering. Leaves are strap-like and erect, to about 40cm.

Red Kangaroo Paw

Largish flower stems in a light red. Inside of flower a creamy colour. Growing roadside in gravelly soil.

Adenanthos venosus

A straggling low shrub. Leaves are broadly oval ending in a point with numerous longitudinal veins. Small dusky red flowers are slightly furry.

Sturt's Desert Pea - unusual colour form

This patch of SDP had pale red to orange petals with a bright pink, pink or whitish "boss" on the standard petal.

Red beaks

Common Beak Orchid Grows 50 - 300mm Dark green red blotched basal leaf Red and White flowers A common orchid in the south west but only flowers after fire.

Murchison Rose

Shrub to 1.5m. Leaves rounded and covered with short felted hairs giving the leaves a furry grey appearance. Stems and younger leaves covered with light brown hairs.