All Wildflowers

Small Monkey Flower

Prostrate annual or perennial, forming broad mats, rooting at nodes, sparsely hairy with white non-glandular hairs, sometimes confined to younger parts and calyx rim.

Red Bugle

A tufted herb with wiry strap-like leaves about 30cm long. Spreads by rhizomes. Flowers are slightly hairy, tubular, 2-3cm long, arranged on spikes that are shorter than the leaves.

Dead Man's Foot or Horse Dung Fungus

Not pretty; but as its common along roads and tracks its worth including. Its a very common yellow-brown puff-ball fungus, that grows in a mycorrhizal relationship with at least Eucalyptus species.

Dunna Dunna

Erect, cactus-like shrub, (0.1-)0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green, Jul to Dec. Sandy soils, clay. Gypsum & limestone ridges, near salt lakes.

Dryander's grevillea

Spreading to erect shrub, (0.3-)0.6-2 m high. Fl. white/red/red-purple/orange-red, Jan to May. Sandstone. Rocky hillsides or ridges.

Reaching Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Reaching Spider Orchid, Caladenia arrecta quite unique in the SW area of WA as it exists in a tiny area of maybe 10 plants,

Rainbow sun dew

Rainbow sun dew Drosera auriculata

Kangaroo Island Gland Flower

Adenanthos macropodianus has an erect habit, usually growing to 1 metre (3 ft) in height although plants as high as 3 metres (10 ft) have been recorded. The leaves, which are up to 15 mm (0.

kangaroo paw

found growing at Gin Gin Cemetary in WA

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),

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) .

Dune Flower - Goat's-foot Convolvulus, Railroad Vine, Beach Morning Glory

Sparse creeper growing over higher area of sandy beach. Two toned pink flower with star pattern, light green leaves.

Spotted Poverty Bush

Shrub, 0.5-2 m high. Fl. violet-purple-white, Aug to Oct. Red sand, loam or clay soils. Gibber plains, calcareous flats, jasper outcrops.

Kick Bush

Usually prostrate or sometimes diffuse to erect shrub, 0.05-0.3(-0.4) m high. Fl. yellow/cream, Jan to Dec. Yellow/grey sand, red/brown laterite gravel, brown clay to sandy clay, ironstone, limestone.

Kimberley Rose

Sandplain Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Caladenia speciosa is the Sandplain Spider orchid. It is found in a thin strip between Busselton and Perth. It is different from the other longacauda in that it has pink labellum

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.

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.

Correa backhouseana var. coriacea

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.

Swainsona beasleyana

Procumbent perennial, herb, to 0.2 m high. Flowers purple-blue-pink, Aug to Sep. Red sandy or gravelly loam soils.

Swainsona sp.

Prostrate, spreading to about 50cm, the pea like flowers about 30 cm in height coral pink in colour.

Cowslip Orchid

Cowslip orchid Caladenia flava Stirling Ranges National Park

Swamp Banksia

Tree or shrub, 1.5-12 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow/orange-yellow, Mar to Aug. Grey or black peaty sand. Low-lying, seasonally damp areas, along watercourses