All Wildflowers

Bloodwood

Small tree with rough scaly tessellated bark over the trunk and branches. Leaves are the same colour on both faces with no intramarginal vein. Buds are arranged in dense terminal panicles.

Tiny Violet

Perennial herb with short, erect stems, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Leaves tufted, lamina broad-ovate to ovate-rhombic, mostly 0.5–15 mm long, 0.5–12 mm wide,

Acorn Banksia

Non-lignotuberous tree or shrub, growing to 10 m high. Flowerheads are cream & orange and a produced from Feb to Aug. Grows in white or grey/yellow sand, sandy loam, brown clay, laterite, granite.

Blue Squill

Chamaescilla corymbosa var. corymbosa is an ephemeral (ie short lived) herb. Linear, strap shaped leaves grow from a tuber. Flowers about 2cm across have 6 tepals,

Calytrix

Small bush, about 60cm high. Both colours of flowers originate from same stem - they are parts of the same flower.

Red Toothbrushes

This aptly named Grevillea is a large bushy shrub commonly between 3-4 metres in height. The slender upright foliage is a silvery green to 15 cm in length and may be undivided or dissected.

Eremophila decipiens

An Eremophila decipiens but in an unusual form. A shrub, 0.1-1.8(-3) m high. Flowers are mainly red however can be yellow or orange, Flowering May to Dec. Grows in clay soils, red or yellow sand.

Queen of Sheba

Striking and unusual flower colour on this much sought after orchid. Very attractive with a distinctive spiral leaf.Found near Albany on the WA south coast and as far north as Wongan Hills and east

Brachychiton

Bare branches make this Brachychiton conspicuous in the dry season. It is a small deciduous tree that grows in rocky places. The branches are bare when the large bright red flowers appear,

Wreath Flower

One sided bottlebrush

Keraudrenia

Golden Sand Sage

The individual flowers are tiny with white petals, but the enlarged calyx gives an overall impression that the flowers are yellow.

Clubbed Spider Orchid

Growing up to 400 mm high. Two greenish/yellow white red flowers. Fawnish-yellow clubbed petals and sepals. Fairly long fringe segments.

Old Man Saltbush

Atriplex nummularia is widespread across much of drylands of central and southern Australia [1]. It extends from the wheatbelt region of Western Australia,

Mother Shield Fern

Mother Shield fern is a hardy, cool climate terrestrial fern with attractive dark green divided fronds. It is found growing along the tablelands and ranges of eastern NSW,

Leafless Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Gidgee or Stinking Wattle

A very slow growing gnarled small tree of desert areas growing to about 8m. Heartwood is heavy, dark red and durable though will be attacked by termites. Phyllodes are grey-green 6-8cm long.

Morning Flag

Orthrosanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1827. It native to Australia, Mexico, Central and South America.

Native Cornflower

Tufted perennial, herb or shrub, 0.05-0.4 m high. Fl. blue, May to Oct. Red sand. Sand dunes, stony hills, sandplains.

Plain Sun Orchid

Terrestrial herb. Leaf linear to lanceolate, 10–30 cm long, 6–20 mm wide, ribbed, erect to lax, dark green to glaucous. Inflorescence to 60 cm high, 2–20-flowered. Flowers sweetly fragrant.

Verticordia pennigera

Erect or prostrate shrub, 0.2 to 0.6 m high. Fl. pink, Jan or Mar to Apr or Jul or Sep to Dec. Sandy or clay, often gravelly soils. Often associated with granitic rocks.

Granite Sun Orchid

Tall spikes about 40 - 50 cm tall.

Honeysuckle Oak or Spider Flower, Desert Grevillea

A small tree or shrub 2 to 7 mts tall, grows throughout inland Australia (not found in Victoria). Rush like leaves are 10 to 30 cms long Flowers are bright orange and yellow and produced most of the