All Wildflowers

Chocolate Lily

A lily that grows through the wetter months of the year. Soft green leaves to approx. 30cm high emerge in April. In some areas these may be deep green, in other areas they have a silvery sheen.

Morrison Featherflower

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

Coast Beard heath

Erect shrub or small tree, 120–500 cm high; branchlets finely pubescent. Leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, 11–29 mm long, 2.4–7.5 mm wide; apex sometimes recurved; margins ± recurved,

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Flowers pink and yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Tinsel-flower

Viscid shrub, (0.3-)0.5-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Jul to Nov. Sand, gravel, laterite.

Chrysocephalum puteale

Erect, compact perennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.75 m high. Fl. yellow, Mar to Nov. Sandy or stony soils. Sand ridges, sandplains, rocky hills.

pink flannel flower

rare!- only blooms precisely one year after a catastrophic fire event 'and' given the right soil and weather conditions. Only found in Lithgow (Dobbs Drift lookout) and Blackheath (Narrow Neck)

Pink Fan Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The little Pink Fan Orchid, Caladenia nana. The white one is undescribed. Common in spring in burnt bushland the year after a burn. Found all over the southwest of WA.

Pink Finger

Leaf narrow-linear, to 15 cm long and 4 mm wide, and sparsely hairy. Inflorescence to 24 cm high, 1–3-flowered. Flowers often sweet to musky scented. Sepals and lateral petals usually 0.8–1.

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Cockies Tongues

Much-branched shrub, 0.3-4 m high. Fl. red/white-yellow, Apr to Nov. White sand, red clay, brown and white gravel, limestone. Plateaus, coastal cliffs, hillsides, road verges.

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.

Caltrop, Yellow Vine or Cat-head

A weed. Tribulus species are summer growing annuals that occur throughout mainland Australia and have high drought tolerance. The plant is a spreading vine.

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.

Waddy Wood

To 10m high with wispy to dense pendulous branches resembling casuarinas. Young trees have stiff foliage with sharp points, probably as a defence against browsers.

Calytrix

Calytrix

Small bush, about 60cm high. Both colours of flowers originate from same stem - they are parts of the same flower.

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.

Calytrix carinata

Shrub, 0.3-3 m high. Fl. pink/pink-purple, Mar or May to Oct. Red sand, gravelly laterite. Sand dunes or flats, rocky hillsides.

Caladenia sp.

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

Candle Cranberry

Prostrate, mat-like or diffuse shrub, 0.05-0.3 m high. Fl. purple-red/red-black, May to Oct. Lateritic soils, sand over limestone. Variety of habitats

Waddywood

Acacia peuce is only found in 3 locations, all within the arid zone of the Simpson and Strzelecki desert. Mature trees slowly reach a height of about 10-15m. They have long narrow,

Waratah

Blue Mountains region

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,