All Wildflowers

Black Kangaroo Paw

A small perennial herb with erect green-yellow leaves, occurring with a height between 0.2 to 1.8 metres. The leaves are strap-like, between 200 and 500 mm long,

Common Smokebush

Erect, multi-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. white-other, Jul to Dec. Sand, gravel, laterite. Sandplains.

Common Leafy Greenhood Orchid

Terrestrial orchid. Green labellum with black central stripe. Locally common in moist forests.

Cut-leaf Banksia

One of many striking features of this dense shrub is the leaf shape that gives rise to the common name of Cut-leaf Banksia. The Latin name praemorsa means "bitten off" referring to the sharply cut

Common mignonette orchid

photo by Graeme W.

White Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One photo is of the Common White Spider Orchid, Caladenia longicauda, the second filmed only meters away has thicker calli and longer petals.

Stumpy Orchid

The stumpy spider orchid is related to and is one of the clubbed spider orchids.

Chestnut Sun Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Chestnut Sun Orchid, Thelymitra fuscolutea, a stunning sun orchid, found in SW WA in isolated areas only.

Spider Orchid hybrid

This orchid is a cross between the Giant spider orchid ( C. excelsa ) and Scott River Spider Orchid (C. thinicola ). It ranges from Yallingup to Karridale and is found in deep sandy soils amongst low

Caustic Vine

Members of the genus Sarcostemma are known as climbing milkweeds or caustic bushes. They are found across Africa and tropical Asia, in Australia, and in parts of North America.

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Spider Orchid Hybrid

Photo by Graeme W. Another hybrid Caladenia, this time a cross between sandplain (C. speciosa) and the grand spider orchid (C. huegelii) .

Chapmans spider orchid

Chapmans Spider Orchid Caladenia chapmanii comes in different colour forms from nearly white through to this one - nearly purple. Photo by Graeme W.

Spider Orchid Hybrid

Photos by Graeme W. A hybrid Caladenia. This is a cross between the Sandplain Spider Orchid (C. speciosa) and the Tuart Spider Orchid (C. georgei),

Slipper orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Slipper orchid, Cryptostylis ovata found all over the southwest of WA especially near rivers and creeks.

Coastal spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One of the rarer orchids . This is the coastal spider orchid, Caladenia abbreviata. It flowers in November and is found in isolated pockets near Augusta.

Sundew - Drosera - Unknown Species

Found growing in a damp rocky area in the Stirling Range, W.A. About 10 cm high, reddish in appearance, with sticky hairs on the roundish leaves.

Caladenia sp.

Photo by Graeme W. Unidentified caladenia. The petals are short and held up and are also partly clubbed.

Tuart Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One of our more stunning orchids with a very deep red labellum, the Tuart Spider Orchid, Caladenia georgei found mainly in the coastal strip between Perth and Busselton.

Butterfly Orchid

Anemone Stinkhorn or Starfish Fungus

This weird looking "thing" is a native fungus that rots down litter on the forest floor. A globular egg-like structure on the soil gives rise to a large fleshy tube, up to 100 x 30 mm.

Club-lipped spider orchid.

photo by Graeme W. The Club-lipped spider orchid, Caladenia corynephora, found in isolated pockets over the south west of WA

Swamp Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Swamp Spider Orchid, Caladenia paludosa is the orchid most confused with the Dunsborough Spider Orchid but is bigger and has a much later flowering period.

Verticordia pennigera

Erect or prostrate shrub, 0.2 to 0.6 m high. Fl. pink, Jan or Mar to Apr or Jul or Sep to Dec. Sandy or clay, often gravelly soils. Often associated with granitic rocks.