All Wildflowers

Large Fruited Mallee

An aptly named Mallee with very large fruit (gumnuts). Although the mallee itself is not large - growing only a few metres in height - it has plenty of other "large" characteristics.

Lodges spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Lodges spider orchid, Caladenia lodgeana. This is a late flowering orchid, flowering in November December. It is also uncommon , found in the lower south west ,

Lomandra nigricans

Dioecious (separate male and female plants) rhizomatous, caespitose (tufted) perennial, herb, 0.25-0.7 m high. Fl. white, May to Aug. White, grey, yellow or black peaty sand, lateritic soils.

Macarthuria australis

Erect or ascending, spreading, wiry shrub, 0.15-0.75 m high. Fl. white/white-cream, May to Dec or Jan to Feb (mainly Aug-Sep). Sand or laterite. Coastal sandplains, sandhills, roadsides.

Marble Gum

A large desert gum reaching over 20m high. Bark smooth throughout, white, shedding in brownish short ribbons or in small polygonal flakes. Leaves are dull green 4 - 6cm long, 1-2cm wide.

Mat Heath Mrytle

Thryptomene ericaea is unique to South Australia. It occurs on Kangaroo Island and, to a lesser extent, on lower Eyre Peninsular. Centenary Starburst is a striking,

Kick Bush

Usually prostrate or sometimes diffuse to erect shrub, 0.05-0.3(-0.4) m high. Fl. yellow/cream, Jan to Dec. Yellow/grey sand, red/brown laterite gravel, brown clay to sandy clay, ironstone, limestone.

Merrits White Spider Orchid

The largest white spider orchid we have, with very long sepals , flowers more frequent after a late spring burn.

Milkmaids

Evocatively named Milkmaids form a lily-like plant with narrow, elongated leaves about 40 cm long. Flowers are held on a slender, 40 cm high stalk that has two leaf-like bracts along its length.

Kangaroo Island Riceflower

Shrub usually 0.7–1.5 m high. Stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic, glabrous, bluish green on adaxial surface, paler abaxially; lamina 12–33 mm long,

Much-branched Daisybush

The Much-branched Daisybush is a low shrub although it can grow to over 1 metre under favourable conditions. The very small leaves are 2 mm in length and are covered in fine woolly hairs that help

Hybrid Spider Orchid

Honey Bush

Erect to sprawling, pungent, ?lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-1.5(-3) m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow/pink, May to Sep. White, grey or yellow sand, sandy loam, granitic soils, laterite.

Grand Spider Orchid hybrid

This is the biggest orchid I've seen this year , with very long sepals and petals. It is a cross between the grand and the sandplain spider orchids. The fringing is also very long,

Goldfields Daisy

Goldfields Daisy commonly grows into compact round shrubs about half a metre in height. The small leaves are flat, stiff and slightly viscid (sticky). The flowerheads are over 2 cm diameter,

Candles

Stackhousia monogyna is the most widespread species and can be found in alpine areas and in coastal districts in heath, grassland, woodland and open forest. It has erect,

Pituri

Shrub or small tree to 3 or 4 metres tall. Long tapering leaves. White 5-petalled flowers with purple and yellow markings in the centre.

Ghost Gum

Tree to 20m tall, with open spreading crown. Small branches droop downwards. Smooth white bark. Grows on both sandy country and on stony hills and plateaux.

Prickly Moses

Small, open prickly shrub of drier woodland areas.

Pituri Bush

Rounded shrub to 4 m tall and 3 m wide. Leaves narrowly elliptic or ovate-elliptic to linear, sessile (or rarely with petiole to 3 mm long), 2–12 cm long, 1–13 mm wide, concolorous.

Prickly Starwort, Prickly Knawel

This little perennial herb can be either prostrate or ascending and may form loose mats. It has angular stems that are variously hairy or glabrous. Leaves are usually recurved, narrow-lanceolate,

Prickly Heath

Straggling stalks covered with long flat leaves that end in a sharp point. Small creamy white flowers in leaf axils. Damp areas near watercourse.

Poached Egg Daisy

After rain desert areas burst into life, with these everlasting daisies leading the charge. Previously named Myriocephalus stuartii. Grows on sand. Annual to about 50cm,

Flannel Flower

The delicate flannel flower is so named because of the soft woolly feel of the plant. Growing in the NSW south coast region, extending to Narrabri in the Central West and up to south-east Queensland,