All Wildflowers

Petrophile sp.

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

Longleaved Cone Bush

This unusual shrub appears as a tuft of elongated rounded (terete) leaves about 30cm high with flowerheads and old seed capsules nestled at ground level, in among the leaf bases.

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,

Lesueur Southern Cross

Prostrate to ascending perennial, herb, 0.2-0.5(-0.9) m high, to 2 m wide. Fl. white-cream-pink, Sep to Dec. Lateritic gravelly soils.

Leafless Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Joseph Spider Orchid

Grevillea obliquistigma

Spreading shrub, 0.3-4(-5) m high. Fl. cream-white-yellow, Jan or Mar or Aug to Dec. Sandy or loamy soils, laterite, granite. Sandplains, stony ridges.

Heath - Oligarrhena micrantha

A small erect shrub, growing about half a metre high. Leaves a small, triangular ending in a sharp point and crowded along the stems Flowers have only 4 petals and are small and numerous,

Hakea lorea

A shrub or small tree of arid areas, with hard ridged, dark grey bark. Leaves are terete (cylindrical), erect to pendulous, and may be simple and up to 60 cm long and 2.5 mm wide,

Heberle's spider orchid

Tuberous, perennial herb, 0.2-0.45 m high. Flowers Sept. to Oct. Grows in Sand, clayey loam and gravel.

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.

Grevillea shuttleworthiana

This unusual little Grevillea grows as an open shrub in sandy heath. The blueish green leaves are round to oval in shape while the very small creamy-yellow flowers are arranged in quite dense

Royal Hakea

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

Hakea auriculata

Low growing , dense shrub with tough spikey leaves. Flowers close to leaf base and branches. Growing in gravelly soil.

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,

Poison Morning Glory

Spreading creeper, dark green heart shaped leaves, purple/mauve/pink flowers that are funnel shaped and 7 or 8cm across.

Painted Lady

This slender little bush with small narrow leaves has some of the most striking flowers of the pea family. Flowers are pink/mauve with reddish tinges,

Pale Fanflower

Prostrate to ascending herb to 50 cm high, often woody at base, with curled simple hairs or glabrous. Flowering all year Leaves obovate to elliptic, 0.6–5 cm long, 1–25 mm wide,

Paper Flower

Thomasia is a genus of thirty relatively unknown Australian species belonging to the family Malvaceae. Plants in this family are usually characterised by having a large,

Coast Velvetbush

A medium to tall shrub. Leaves: The leathery leaves are between 2-8 cm long and 0.5-1 cm wide. The leaf margins are wavy and curve back towards the underside of the leaf.

Native Stock

Annual to 50 cm high, erect, with sessile, stalked-stellate or irregularly branched hairs. Basal leaves to 12 cm long; stem leaves reducing to entire, sessile. Sepals to 7 mm long.

Wild Parsley, wild parsnip

A splash of colour in the desert - erect annual herb to 60 cm high, sometimes with a perennial rootstock; smooth stems sparingly branched. Leaves mostly towards the base of the plant,

Corky Honeymyrtle

Straggling low shrub to about 1m. Branches covered with thick ridged corky grey bark. Pinkish-mauve flowers produced directly on woody stems. Grows in sandy areas

Scaevola, Fan Flower

A perennial, herb,growing to about 50cm high. Stiff erect form with leaves much reduced in size.