All Wildflowers

Guichenotia macrantha

Small shrub to about 1m tall. Leaves whitish and furry, elongated, with edges rolled under. Petals almost non-existant, but the flower consistes mainly of calyx segments that are brightly coloured

Curly Pink-bells - Kangaroo Island Endemic

Compact, rush like and almost leafless dwarf shrub. Profuse 5 petalled deep pink flowers that flowers in spring. There is also a very rare white flowered form,

Kangaroo Island Correa

Variable small shrub depending on the soil type. Ovate leaves with rusty hairs on th e bark. There are many colour forms, with natural hybrrids between species on Kangaroo Island making it at times

Dancing Spider Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.09-0.45 m high, horizontally arranged flowers. Grows in grey, brown or black sand, granitic loam. Sandy Banksia woodland, mallee woodland on margins of salt lakes.

Kangaroo Thorn

Erect or spreading shrub 1–4 m high; bark finely fissured, brownish grey; branchlets ± terete with low ridges, ± hairy. Stipules spinescent, slender, mostly 5–15 mm long.

Isopogon latifolius

Rounded shrub to 1.5m. Broad leathery leaves about 7cm long, pale blue-green. Conspicuous mauve-pink flower heads.

Isopogon baxteri

Straggling, open shrub. Leaves deep green, deeply lobed, each lobe terminating in a sharp point. Large flower heads of feathery pink flowers. Endemic to Stirling Ranges.

Island Boronia

Small and sometimes bushy shrub to around 50cm high. Leaves are small in threes, flowering over a long period during spring. The flowers have four petals and is confined to Kangaroo Island and is

Yellow Spider Orchid

Common widespread orchid. Grows to 150-350mm in height Single erect hairy leaf Pale yellow to greenish flowers

Daisybush

A dense woody shrub growing to about 1m high. small rectangular shaped leaves covered with hairs giving a greyish appearance. Flowerheads about 2cm across.

Hybrid Spider Orchid

King in his Carriage Orchid

Grows to 100mm - 350mm in height

Hop Goodenia

Goodenia is a genus of about 200 species, almost all of which are confined to Australia although a few occur in the islands to the north.

King in his Carriage orchid

King in his Carriage Drakaea glyptodon, southwest area

Hemigenia pachyphylla

A tough woody shrub growing to about 3m high. Conspicuous white flowers marked with red streaks. Flowers in leaf axils. Leaves thick (hence the name pachyphylla meaning thick leaf) with mid vein.

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.

Leafless Bitter-pea

Daviesia brevifolia (Leafless Bitter-pea) is a broom-like shrub in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Australia. It grows to 1 metre in height and has phyllodes with pointed, recurved tips.

Leafless Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Harlequin mistletoe

Spreading to pendent shrub, glabrous; external runners absent. Leaves flat or somewhat compressed when very narrow, linear to narrow-oblong, sessile or the wider leaves shortly petiolate,

Leaping Spider Orchid

It is identified by its leaping posture.

Leaping Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Dolphin Wattle

Triangular, dolphin shaped phyllodes (modified leaf stalks that look like and act as leaves) is the memorable characteristic of this small shrub.

Grass Leaved Hakea, Cork Tree, Emu Tree

A striking sight when in full flower. Shrub of sandy plains and dunes. Grows to about 5m tall. Leaves elongated up to about 20cm long with 5 or 6 distinct veins. Flower spikes deep pink.

Kangaroo Apple

Erect shrub to 2 m high, glabrous except for minute hairs on corolla apices; prickles absent. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 3–8 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, margins usually entire, ± concolorous,