All Wildflowers

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.

Swamp Spider Orchid

A common orchid that has up to three red greenish-yellow and cream flowers.Spreading petals, narrowly clubbed lateral sepals and a white or greenish yellow red tipped projecting labellum.

Sweet Appleberry

Robust shrubby twiner or scrambler, stems to a few metres long. Adult leaves alternate, mostly narrowly elliptic, 36–60 mm long, 6–13 mm wide, glabrous; margin usually recurved,

Swordfish Banksia

Densely branched, lignotuberous shrub, 1-4 m high. Flowers are yellow, and inflorescences hang down. Flowering is Jan to Mar or May. Yellow or brown sand, sometimes with lateritic gravel.

Synaphea

A low shrub to about 1 m. Leaves yellowish, deeply lobed, each lobe terminating in a sharp point. Small yellow flowers are thickly clustered giving the whole plant a yellowish hue.

Synaphea spinulosa subsp spinulosa

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

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.

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.

Tasmanian Waratah

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

Vanilla Orchid

Herbaceous perennial growing to about 20cm high. Distinctive yellow flowers, buds are pink.

Variable Prickly Grevillea

Prickly shrub with holly-like leaves that are whitish on the underside. Grows mostly in heathlands.

Velvet Wattle, Wyberba Wattle

A rare wattle is this small erect or spreading tree or shrub. It grows to to about 8 m high and has fissured, dark grey bark. Phyllodes are silvery grey-green and tapering at either end,

Wild Tobacco or Rosetted Tobacco

Wild Tomato

Rounded shrub growing to about 1.5m tall. Prickles up to 1cm long on stems only. All parts covered with short dense hairs that can be silvery or rusty colour.

Wills' Desert Fuchsia

Erect, spreading or straggly shrub, 0.45-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, May or Jul to Nov. Red sand. Sand dunes.

Winged Wattle

Shrub, 0.3-2.1 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow/pink, Apr to Dec. Variety of soils. Near water, rocky hills, breakaways, salt pans, clay flats.

Winter Donkey Orchid

Common early flowering donkey Orchid 200-500mm Two to three basal leaves, up to 15 yellow and brown flowers

Woolly Head Mat Rush

Grass like perennial forb 20-80cm tall. Leaves basal, with a sheath at the base, 20-80cm long, 1.5-5mm wide, flat. Male and female flowers on different plants. Fragrant flowers.

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.

Woolly Rice-flower

Shrub 0.4–1 m high. Young stems densely hairy. Leaves alternate or sometimes subopposite, shortly petiolate, ±narrowly elliptic, with long white hairs on both surfaces when young, concolorous,

Woolly Sunray

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

Woollybush

Woollybush grows as an upright, spreading shrub, but can be a small tree up to 5 m tall. It has erect branches that are covered in short hairs when young. Leaves may be up to 4cm long,

Wreath Flower

Xanthosia tomentosa