All Wildflowers

Greencomb Spider Orchid

This Orchid is a delicate, to 650cm high. Leaves hairy to 6cm long and 2cm wide. flowers are intricate, spider like, of various colours, green, white, yellow, maroon and red.

Nardoo

Burke and Wills tried to live on Nardoo when they returned to the Dig Tree. Unfortunately they didn't know how to prepare it so that it was nutritious.

Karri Spider Orchid

A high rainfall late flowering spider orchid growing between 300 and 600 mm tall,with a single hairy leaf.The orchid can have up to three variably red, green,

Karri Snail orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.08-0.29 m high. Fl. green, Jul to Nov. Sandy loam-clay, laterite clay over granite, shallow mossy soils. Winter damp flats, in forests, on rocks and around rock bases,

Lambtails

Lambs Tails is exactly what the flower heads look like. Flower heads appear woolly and white due to a dense covering of hair giving a woolly appearance.

Exotic spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The vivid white and red orchid is the exotic spider orchid caladenia nivalis, from the dunsborough area.

Leaping Spider Orchid

It is identified by its leaping posture.

Eremophila serrulata - Green Fuchsia Bush

Intricate, often resinous shrub to 2.5 m high, branches pubescent, hairs branched. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 2–6 cm long, 9–10 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, margins entire or toothed, pubescent.

Island Point Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Island Point Spider Orchid, Caladenia Island Point was only known till last week from one population on the margins of Harvey estuary of 100 or so plants .

Hopbush

Forget flowers, its the colourful seed pods that look a bit like hops used to flavour beer that make these plants distinctive. Much branched, dense low shrub to 1m high.

Emu Bush

Upright tall shrub to 3m. Grows in Sandy or stony soils, alluvium. Colluvial & riverine flats, rocky hills.

Pendant spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Pendant spider orchid, Caladenia pendans from the Dunsborough area. This population of the pendant spider orchid is only in an area of 50 or so square meters and usually occurs

Floating Pond Weed

Possibly Potamogeton tricarinatus - see ref below - but was photographed at Hidden Secret Rockhole in the Doctor Hicks Rng GVD, which is a long long way outside the known range.

Flying Duck Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm

These ancient plants were abundant when dinosaurs were here. Macrozamia dyeri is a palm-like plant (but not a palm) with a short stout trunk above ground, reaching a diameter of 1 metre or more,

Dunsborough spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Dunsborough spider orchid, Caladenia viridescens ,a very rare orchid with perhaps 20 plants left at best, found in the Dunsborough area.

Forrest Mantis Orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Nodding greenhood Orchid

Frail Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Another of our very rare orchids , the Frail Spider Orchid, Caladenia uliginosa.

Leaping Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Jug Orchid

Unusual striped flowers make the jug orchid unmistakeable. The plant grows up to about half a meter tall with several elongated leaves clasping the flowering stem.

Fringed Leek Orchid

Spectacular early flowering Leek Orchid Grows 30 - 100cm Up to 70 brownish-green pink and white flowers

Donkey Orchid

Fringed Leek Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Fringed Leek Orchid, Prasophyllum fimbria which can be common in the general southwest of WA area but usually only flowers after fire.