All Wildflowers

Simpson Desert Daisy - Yellow Billybutton

Hakea lorea

A shrub or small tree of arid areas, with hard ridged, dark grey bark. Leaves are terete (cylindrical), erect to pendulous, and may be simple and up to 60 cm long and 2.5 mm wide,

Diplopeltis huegelii

A sparse shrub growing about 1.5m high and forming a dense roadside colony. Flowers at the ends of branches, each with 4 pale mauve "stalked" petals and 5 sepals.

Golden Everlasting

Xerochrysum bracteatum, the "Golden Everlasting", is one of the best known of the "paper daisies". It is a very widespread species occurring in both annual and perennial forms.

Royal Hakea

Tall shrub, 6ft high, large stiff multicoloured leaves.

Tea Tree

Smelling sweet ,Tea Tree blossoms blowing like confetti in the wind line the roads of Flinders Island.

Tasmanian Waratah

Endemic to Tasmania, with a more open flower than NSW's emblem.

Tiger Orchid

medium sized orchid growing in coastal heathland in Bridport, Tasmania.

Common Clematis

A strongly growing vine that climbs over other shrubs and intertwines with other vines. Climbing is done by the twining leaf stalks. Leaves are compound, made up of 3 oval shaped leaflets.

Native Apricot

Shrub or tree to c. 10 m high, almost glabrous throughout; branches pendent. Leaves alternate, oblong or linear or narrowly elliptic, 4–12 cm long, 4–12 mm wide, falcate; margin flat,

Silver Box

A small tree with rough box-type bark. Adult leaves retain their juvenile form, they are large about 15x8cm, waxy-grey (glaucous) and the same colour on both sides, opposite and sessile.

Blue Lace Flower

Photos taken on New Years Day 2015, flowers at the end of their season. Flowers blue/white/purple, Oct to Dec or Jan to Mar. Erect annual or biennial, herb, 0.1-2 m high. Sand, loam,

Rough-leaved Ghost Gum

Smooth white bark and rough almost sandpaper-textured leaves are distinctive features of this beautiful tree of desert areas. The mature crown of these trees is made up of juvenile-type leaves that

Shining Poverty Bush

A short-lived species 1 to 3.5 m high with large, glossy, viscid leaves 54 to 85 mm long by 7.5 to 15 mm wide, large sepals 8.5 to 15 mm long by 3.5 to 8 mm wide and a cream, yellow,

Sand Sunray, Teitkens Daisy

Annual forb to 50cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, the upper leaves stem clasping. Flowersheads yellow, with no ligulate florets. Flower heads cylindrical to narrow bell-shaped,

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.

Bancroft Wattle

Strangely shaped large phyllodes up to about 20cm long are a distinctive feature of this wattle from SE Qld. Each phyllode is a stem modified to carry out photosynthesis ,

Emu Bush

Upright tall shrub to 3m. Grows in Sandy or stony soils, alluvium. Colluvial & riverine flats, rocky hills.

Mulga Bluebush

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

Eremophila lachnocalyx or Woolly-calyxed Eremophila

Also known as the - Woolly-calyxed Eremophila An erect, spreading shrub, 0.6-2.2 m high, to 3 m wide. Grows in Clay, sand. Stony flats & ridges.

Cottonheads

Small tufted perennial with pointed grass-like leaves. About 25cm tall. Common growing in sand among heath.

Barrier Saltbush

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

Oxalis exilis

Open, erect, small shrub, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, May to Dec. White-grey sand, brown sandy loam or clay, red-brown loam, black-brown clay, gravel, sandstone, limestone, laterite, granite. Outcrops,

Coast Beard-heath

Erect, densely branched shrub or tree, (0.2-)0.3-3(-5) m high. Fl. white, Feb to Mar or Jun to Oct. Sandy soils over limestone or granite. Coastal dunes & limestone.