All Wildflowers

Mulla Mulla

Mulla Mulla

Erect perennial to 1.5 m high. Stems simple or branched, ± glabrous except for axils and young shoots. Leaves obovate or oblong-lanceolate or spathulate, to 20 cm long, to 5 cm wide, acute,

Correa backhouseana var. coriacea

Mulga Bluebush

Open, divaricately branched shrub. 0.4-2 m high. Red sand, sandy clay, loam, non-saline.

Mountain Shaggy Pea

This spreading shrub is common in alpine and subalpine areas in Vic, NSW and the ACT. It is showy when in flower over the summer months. The leaves are oblong to elliptical, 2 to 4cm long,

Mountain Pea

Tentative Identification. Spindly, small branched shrub to 1.5 m with leaves 4-6cm long.

Cow Kicks

Trigger Plants

Mother Shield Fern

Mother Shield fern is a hardy, cool climate terrestrial fern with attractive dark green divided fronds. It is found growing along the tablelands and ranges of eastern NSW,

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Morrison Featherflower

Erect shrub, 0.5-2 m high. Flowers yellow-orange, Oct to Dec or Jan to Feb. Grey/white or brown sand.

Melaleuca parviceps

Shrub, to 0.6 m high. Fl. pink, Dec. Red-brown clay-loam. Disturbed eucalypt woodland.

Mat Mulla Mulla

Prostrate annual, herb, 0.03-0.12 m high, leaves, ovate-spathulate, 7-110 mm long, leaves 2-45 mm wide; spike ovoid-cylindrical, 15-50 mm long; spike 25-40 mm wide; bract 7.5-9 mm long; bracteole 8.

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.

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,

Crimson Turkey Bush

Shrub, (0.3-)0.8-3 m high. Fl. red-pink-blue-cream, Apr to Oct. Stony red clay, loam or sandy soils over sandstone, granite, ironstone. Gibber plains, rocky ridges & hillslopes, creeklines.

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.

Crotalaria eremaea, Bluebush Pea, Desert Rattlepod

Crotalaria eremaea is a widely distributed shrub of central Australia and a relatively common species growing on sand dunes. Densely woolly erect woody herb with yellow flowers, the Desert rattlepod,

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.

Little Woollybush

Erect,compact shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. red/pink, Feb or May to Dec. White, grey or yellow sand, sandy clay, gravel. Among low scrub.

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,

Leucopogon polymorphus

Shrub, 0.2-1 m high. Fl. white, Jun to Oct. Sandy soils over laterite or limestone.

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.

Lesser Bottlebrush

One of only two 'true' bottlebrushes in WA. Tall to small tree or shrub, 1-6 m high. Fl. red, Sep to Dec or Jan. Sandy soils, laterite. Often along watercourses.