All Wildflowers

Scaly Phebalium

Shrub to 2m tall, sometimes compact. Small brownish scales cover stems and underside of leaves. Leaves narrow, up to 5cm long. Flowers with 5 petals and 10 long erect stamens,

Curly Mallee, Arkaroola Mallee

Mallee to 5m, somewhat tumbledown habit. Bark rough on lower branches, smooth above. Leaves grey-green, broad and sessile (without a leaf stalk) and arranged in opposite pairs. Buds with conical cap,

Petrophile sp.

Open shrub with cream flower spikes. Leaves tough with sharp points.

Cauliflower Hakea

Dense prickly foliage and flowers packed tight as in a cauliflower marks this unusual Hakea. Its not the most attractive Hakea, but one of the more distinctive ones. It grows to about one metre high.

Darling Lily

Clump-forming herb, lacking a pseudostem. Leaves several, basal, ± spreading, broad-linear, 30–80 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, margins ± rough.

Shrubby Velvet-Bush

Wiry shrub to 2.5m tall. Stems and new shoots covered with rusty red hairs. Flowers are crowded in clusters. Calyx lobes are speckled outside with star shaped (stellate) hairs, smooth and pale inside.

Flat Topped Yate

A graceful small to medium sized tree,growing to about 15m tall. Bark is rough, fibrous and flaky on trunk. Leaves elongated and form a typically umbrella shaped flat crown to the tree.

Siloxerus filifolius

Decumbent to erect annual, herb, 0.01-0.065 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan. Variety of soils. Moist situations.

Boab or Adansonia

Families of boabs march across the Kimberley landscape, slim youngsters, sturdy middle aged ones, stout grandparents . Boabs grow into a large tree with swollen bottle shaped trunk.

Silver Box

A small tree with rough box-type bark. Adult leaves retain their juvenile form, they are large about 15x8cm, waxy-grey (glaucous) and the same colour on both sides, opposite and sessile.

Grevillea acacioides

Flowers that range in colour from white through cream to green grace this erect, much-branched shrub that grows to 1-2.2 m high. Flowering occurs from May to Sep (mainly Jul-Sep).

Bootlace Oak

Shrub or small tree (1.5) 2–6 (–7.5) m high, apparently lignotuberous (resprouting from base). Branchlets often glaucous, sometimes glabrous,

Funnel Web orchid hybrid

Coastal Spider Orchid

Late flowering Spider Orchid Grows to 200 - 300mm Spreading Petals and lateral sepals Declared Priority Flora in WA Coastal Habitation

Funnelweb Spider Orchid

another distinct spider orchid

Bull Banksia

Tree or shrub (in south coastal areas), 1.5-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan. White or grey sand, laterite.

Cajeput Tree, Paperbark

A familiar sight along watercourses and in swamps across northern Australia. A medium sized tree with bright silvery green foligae and a slightly weeping habit.

Old Man's Beard

Dioecious, woody climber, to 5 m high. Leaves mostly biternate with 9 leaflets; leaflets lanceolate-oblong to broad-ovate, 0.8–6 cm long, 0.3–1.2 cm wide,

Pop flower - Glischrocaryon flavescens

Low growing plant with narrow leaves and clusters of cream flowers. About 50cm high. Growing in sandy/gravelly soil in Kalbarri National Park, W.A.

Grass Tree

Perennial tree-like monocot, to 5 m high, trunk to 5 m, scape length 0.6-0.8 m, spike length 1.0-1.5 m. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Dec. Yellow to red sand.

Royal Hakea

Tall shrub, 6ft high, large stiff multicoloured leaves.

Lignum

A familiar sight across floodplains and wetlands in inland Australia is the multi-stemmed dense and tangled shrub commonly known as Lignum. Plants vary greatly in size,

Weeping Gum, Weeping Mallee

A slender gum with minimal foliage and a strongly weeping habit. Grows on rocky exposed slopes in the Fitzgerald River NP. Flowers are small, fruits large, urn shaped. Bark smooth.

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.