All Wildflowers

Hakea auriculata

Low growing open shrub with tough spikey leaves. Dense light pink, showy flowers along the branch at the base of the leaves. Growing in sandy/gravelly soil.

Guinea Flower

A small twiggy shrub to around 30cm in height. It has narrow, fine green leaves with a sharp tip. The flowers are bright yellow and flower durning winter and spring and can be found in the wetter

Grey Swainsona

Prostrate or erect, spreading perennial, herb, 0.15-0.6 m high. Fl. purple-pink/purple & yellow & green, May or Jul to Dec. Usually on red sandy soils.

Grevillea stenobotrya or Rattlepod Grevillea

Bushy shrub to 5m high. Leaves linear, 10-25cm c 1-2mm, finely pointed slightly hooked tip. Flowers creamy white (green in bud), cylindrical or slightly tapered, 7-14cm long. Smooth greyish bark

Grevillea obliquistigma

Spreading shrub, 0.3-4(-5) m high. Fl. cream-white-yellow, Jan or Mar or Aug to Dec. Sandy or loamy soils, laterite, granite. Sandplains, stony ridges.

Grevillea leptobotrys

Sprawling, prostrate or spreading, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. pink, Jan or Jun to Jul or Sep to Dec. Sandy, gravelly, loamy or clayey soils on laterite or granite.

Grass Tree

Perennial tree-like monocot, to 5 m high, trunk to 5 m, scape length 0.6-0.8 m, spike length 1.0-1.5 m. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Dec. Yellow to red sand.

Hakea erecta

Erect, rounded shrub, 0.5-2.6 m high. Fl. pink/cream, Sep to Oct. Deep yellow sand, laterite.

Eremophila serrulata - Green Fuchsia Bush

Intricate, often resinous shrub to 2.5 m high, branches pubescent, hairs branched. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 2–6 cm long, 9–10 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, margins entire or toothed, pubescent.

Polygala orbicularis

Annual, herb, 0.04-0.2 m high. Fl. blue-white, Apr to May. Clayey sand. Pool edges, swamps, sandstone outcrops.

Poverty Bush

Erect, open shrub, (0.5-)1-4(-5) m high. Fl. white/cream-yellow/red-pink-purple, Jun to Dec or Jan to Mar. Frequently on red or stony soils. Variety of habitats.

Tennis Ball Banksia

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-3.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sand, clay loam, gravel, spongolite, laterite. Hills, top of breakaways.

Barrier Saltbush

Prostrate to erect shrub, 0.1-0.6(-2) m high. Fl. May to Sep. Variety of soils, often saline.

Tallerack

Common. A small gum with distinctive waxy-white (glaucous) foliage and gumnuts (fruit). Grows to about 4m tall. Branches and fruits have 4 angular ribs running longitudinally. Gumnuts 1cm long.

Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid Prasophyllum elatum. Found in isolated pockets of the south west , it only flowers after fire. This orchid can grow to 120cms tall.

Synaphea spinulosa subsp spinulosa

Scruffy low growing bush with small yellow flower spikes. leaves tough and spikey. Growing gravelly sandy soil

Beaufortia macrostemon

Spreading shrub, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. red, Sep to Dec or Jan. Gravelly lateritic soils.

Swamp Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Swamp Spider Orchid, Caladenia paludosa is the orchid most confused with the Dunsborough Spider Orchid but is bigger and has a much later flowering period.

Bird Orchid

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

Swainsona sp.

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

Bird orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Unidentified bird orchid, Pterostylis sp.

Swainsona beasleyana

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

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.