All Wildflowers

Mistletoe

Mistletoes are parasites on trees and shrubs. They use the host plant to provide water and some sugars which are accessed via a specialised structure (haustoria) that penetrates the stem of the host.

Mint Bush

Shrub with minty aromatic leaves. Grows in sheltered places near rocks or streams.

Native Iris

Small tufted perennial with long strap-like leaves.

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.

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,

Native Iris

Tufted perennial with long strap like leaves. Spreads by rhizomes. Flower stems shorter than the leaves. Flowers purple/blue with 3 large petals. Growing in sandy soil.

Phebalium

A thick bushy shrub that grows around granite outcrops and damp places in the Granite Belt of SE Queensland.

Native Liquorice

Erect subshrub to 1 m high, ± glabrous. Leaves 2–8 cm long; leaflets 9–13, linear to elliptic or obovate, 15–20 mm long; 2–8 mm wide, apex shortly mucronate, margins with minute, curved hairs,

Native Primrose

Prostrate to ascending herb to 20 cm long, cottony-pubescent; stems usually stoloniferous. Basal leaves obovate to oblanceolate, narrowing basally, dentate, glabrescent above,

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

Barrens Regelia

Barrens Regelia

A large shrub to about 3 metres with attractive, greyish green, velvety leaves to about 13mm long. The large clusters of brilliant red/orange flowers (occasionally yellow) open in spring and are well

Barrens Regelia

Sparsely branched woody shrub to 3m. Oval leaves about 1cm long in 4 distinct rows along the stems, slightly grey in colour.

Bacon and Eggs

Small woody shrub. Leaves flat, rounded with pointed tip.

Native Willow, Greenbush

Native Willow is a medium sized open shrub growing to about 4 metres high. The leaves are about 5cm long, covered with soft white hairs. Buds and seedpods are also hairy.

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.

Augusta Bee Orchid

One of the rarer WA donkey orchids.

Pearly Sundew, Pygmy Drosera

A tiny Drosera growing to only about 2 cm high, though flower stalk may increase the height. Leaves are bright red and round. Plants seen were growing in deep white sand.

Nyabing Spider Orchid

These delicate little Spider Orchids were all growing together in a dry roadside area. Colours varied from predominately deep red through to a pinkish white. About 20cm tall.

Mustard Orchid

Bluerod

Faintly scented perennial herbs to > 80 cm high, sometimes suckering, with erect branches, glabrous but rarely for tiny aculeate non-glandular hairs on the branches and leaves,

Boronia

Soft shrub to about 1m. Mauve/pink 4-petalled flowers in spring.

White Fairy

Cassia 'Cockroach Bush'

Dense rounded shrub growing on loamy soil along watercourse. Leaves with 2 pairs of flattened leaflets about 3cm long.