All Wildflowers

Woolly Mat-rush

Perennial tussock, small to robust; rhizomes ascending. Leaves flat, rigid, coarsely veined, 20–60 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide; apex acute to rounded; sheath margins white or orange-brown.

Native Foxglove

An extremely attractive plant when in full flower. It is found widely around the eastern wheatbelt in the light colour as per the Yellowdine area photographs, to deep burgundy north of Muckinbudin,

Bluebell

Perennial forb to 80cm tall. Leaves opposite each other near the base, alternating up the stems higher up. Leaves 0.4-6cm long, 1-4mm wide, linear, hairless to sparsely hairy, margins flat,

Mulga Bluebush

Open, divaricately branched shrub. 0.4-2 m high. Red sand, sandy clay, loam, non-saline.

Burrawang or Cycad

Cycads are ancient cone bearing plants that do not produce flowers. They are very slow growing with palm-like leaves extending from a central trunk. Male and female cones are borne on separate plants.

Bull Banksia

Tree or shrub (in south coastal areas), 1.5-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan. White or grey sand, laterite.

Mulla Mulla

Erect perennial to 1.5 m high. Stems simple or branched, ± glabrous except for axils and young shoots. Leaves obovate or oblong-lanceolate or spathulate, to 20 cm long, to 5 cm wide, acute,

Weir Vine

Climber, to 6 m high. Fl. purple-blue-pink, Jan to Jun. Red sandy & clayey soils, pebbly loam. Undulating plains, dunes, hardpans.

Buckthorn Family

Trees, shrubs, and lianas, or herbs (Crumenaria). ‘Normal’ plants, or switch-plants; often with the principal photosynthesizing function transferred to stems. Leaves well developed, or much reduced.

Mulla Mulla

Murchison Rose

Shrub to 1.5m. Leaves rounded and covered with short felted hairs giving the leaves a furry grey appearance. Stems and younger leaves covered with light brown hairs.

Nardoo

Burke and Wills tried to live on Nardoo when they returned to the Dig Tree. Unfortunately they didn't know how to prepare it so that it was nutritious.

Bossiaea walkeri -Cactus Bossiaea

Rigid, much-branched shrub to 2 m high, ± glabrous; stems and branches flat and winged, 3–7 mm wide, often with a white, waxy surface. Leaves reduced to scales c. 2 mm long.

White Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One photo is of the Common White Spider Orchid, Caladenia longicauda, the second filmed only meters away has thicker calli and longer petals.

Little Woollybush

Erect,compact shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. red/pink, Feb or May to Dec. White, grey or yellow sand, sandy clay, gravel. Among low scrub.

Bonamia erecta

Shrub, to 0.4 m high. Stems, leaves and buds covered with short golden/brown hairs. Flowers white-cream, Jul. Red sand.

Boab or Adansonia

Families of boabs march across the Kimberley landscape, slim youngsters, sturdy middle aged ones, stout grandparents . Boabs grow into a large tree with swollen bottle shaped trunk.

Bluerod

Native Cornflower, Blue Pincushion

Bush Tomato

Bird Orchid

Woolly Sunray

Erect annual, herb, 0.1-0.45 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Nov. Red sand, lateritic pebbly soils. Dunes, sandplains.

Amyema melaleucae

Aerial shrub, hemiparasitic on stems. Fl. pink & red, Jan to Apr or Aug to Nov. Exclusively on Melaleuca.

Orange Wattle

Dense, often weeping shrub or tree, 1.5-6(-9) m high. Long green phyllodes. Fl. yellow, Jul to Nov. Variety of habitats.