All Wildflowers

Fringed Mantis Orchid

the Fringed Mantis differs from other members of the C. falcata complex in having larger flowers and a broader labellum with a smaller calli.

Sunshine Wattle

Thick shrub 1 to 2m tall with compound leaves, 8-16 pairs of leaflets on each leaf section. Flower heads are spherical, bright yellow, arranged in open clusters at the ends of branches.

Heath - Oligarrhena micrantha

A small erect shrub, growing about half a metre high. Leaves a small, triangular ending in a sharp point and crowded along the stems Flowers have only 4 petals and are small and numerous,

Sun Orchid hybrid

A sun orchid hybrid that was found south of Mullewa amongst some granite pockets. It is a cross between the T antennifera and T petrophila .

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,

Black-eyed Susan

Small straggling shrub with small heath-like leaves. Bright mauve-purple flowers in spring that tend to hang down obscuring the distinctive black centre.

Drumsticks

Straggly open shrub with large serrated, prickly leaves. Large flower heads about 7cm across.

Heberle's spider orchid

Tuberous, perennial herb, 0.2-0.45 m high. Flowers Sept. to Oct. Grows in Sand, clayey loam and gravel.

Holly-leaf Grevillea

Spreading to prostrate shrub, 0.3–2 m high. Leaves 3–9 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, divided or rarely some entire, usually with 3–7 triangular to ovate teeth or lobes 0.5–5 cm long, 4–8 mm wide,

Stumpy Orchid

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

Frankenia (no common name)

Small densely branched shrubs; branches differentiated into long- and short-shoots, short-pilose, hairs spreading to lightly curved, internodes 0.6-7.5 mm long; long-shoot leaves 2.8-6.

Hovea

Erect open shrub to 1.5m. Narrow leaves, .

Yawning Leek Orchid.

Photo by Graeme W. An unusual one in that it should only flower after summer fire but there has been no fire where I found this. Prasophyllum hians, the Yawning Leek Orchid.

Flat Topped Yate

A graceful small to medium sized tree,growing to about 15m tall. Bark is rough, fibrous and flaky on trunk. Leaves elongated and form a typically umbrella shaped flat crown to the tree.

Eremaea beaufortioides

Spreading shrub, 0.3-2.5 m high with small ovate shaped leaves crowded along the stems. Flowers are orange, approx 15mm across and are at the end of the stems.

Stark White Spider Orchid.

perennial, herb, 0.3-0.6 m high. growing in lateritic or clayey loam, sometimes in sand.

Square-fruit Mallee, Four-winged Mallee

Staggly small mallee to 3m. Leaves thick, about 15cm long. Large square ribbed, bright red flower base. Anthers bright pink. Operculum (bud cap) is pointed and ribbed.

Joseph Spider Orchid

Spiny Mintbush

IN NSW Prostanthera spinosa is an aromatic, scrambling, prostrate shrub, to 0.5 metres high. It is erect and reaches up to 2 metres in Victoria and South Australia.

Joseph's spider orchid - Red version

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.3 m high. Grows in Sand, loam, clay loam. Damp flats. Found between Boyup Brook and Fitzgerald River.

Joseph's Spider orchid - Yellow Version

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.3 m high. Grows in Sand, loam, clay loam. Damp flats. Found between Boyup Brook and Fitzgerald River

Heath-leaved Honeysuckle

A scraggy open bush with bell shaped red flowers. Normally flowers September, October however in the Stirling Range W.A. was found to be still flowering in March

Donkey Orchid

Bean Tree, Bauhinia

Also known as Lysiphyllum gilvum. Large shrub or small tree to about 6 m high, partly deciduous in dry season. Glabrous (smooth) except for flowers that vary in colour from whitish through pink to