All Wildflowers

Silver Wattle

A very common wattle along the NSW tablelands. Ranges in size from a bushy shrub to a tall forest tree in wet forests. True leaves are green-grey.

Skeleton fanflower

Erect multistemmed perennial to 1 m high, with minute glandular and usually simple hairs except the almost-glabrous striate stems.Basal leaves ovate to spathulate, to 4.5 cm long and 15 mm wide,

Slender Banksia

Lignotuberous tree or shrub, 0.4-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan to Feb. White, yellow, brown or pale red sand, sometimes over laterite. Sand dunes, sandplains.

Slender Fuschia

Shrub, 0.1-1.8(-3) m high. Fl. red-yellow-orange, Feb to Mar or May to Dec. Clay soils, red or yellow sand, granite, laterite. Undulating plains, claypans, salt lakes, screes.

Slender Onion Orchid

You could easily mistake this common little orchid for grass. A small terrestrial orchid with 10s of tiny flowers crowded along a flowering spike that can grow up tp to 30cm tall.

Slender Smoke-bush

An erect shrub to 1.5m tall with narrow, upturned leaves. The flower are blue to whiteish in a dense spike.

Slipper Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.25-0.7 m high. Fl. green & red, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White-grey sand, loam, granite. Sand dunes, outcrops, swamps.

Slipper orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Slipper orchid, Cryptostylis ovata found all over the southwest of WA especially near rivers and creeks.

Small Darwinia

Darwinia micropetala, commonly known as Small Darwinia, is a small shrub that is native to south-eastern Australia. It grows to 0.5 metres high and has small leaves and clusters of small white and

Small Monkey Flower

Prostrate annual or perennial, forming broad mats, rooting at nodes, sparsely hairy with white non-glandular hairs, sometimes confined to younger parts and calyx rim.

Smooth Fringe Myrtle

Small woody shrub to 1m tall with tiny, smooth leaves and is endemic to South Australia.

Simpson Desert Daisy - Yellow Billybutton

Jug Orchid

Unusual striped flowers make the jug orchid unmistakeable. The plant grows up to about half a meter tall with several elongated leaves clasping the flowering stem.

Illyarrie

Tree, 3-8(-14) m high, bark smooth. Fl. yellow, Feb to Apr. Sandy soils. Limestone ridges & outcrops.

Joseph's spider orchid - Red version

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.3 m high. Grows in Sand, loam, clay loam. Damp flats. Found between Boyup Brook and Fitzgerald River.

Christines Spider Orchid

Christmas bells

A tufted perennial herb. The leaves are about 70 cm long, flat with a keeled underside, 2–5 mm wide.The flower stalk is about 80 cm long but can reach up to 175 cm.

Christmas Tree Mulga

Trees to 6-8 m tall, with a single, straight, erect trunk and relatively short, horizontally spreading lateral branches from base to apex (rendering the plants a conifer-like habit).

Chrysocephalum puteale

Erect, compact perennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.75 m high. Fl. yellow, Mar to Nov. Sandy or stony soils. Sand ridges, sandplains, rocky hills.

Clasping Goodenia

Erect undershrub or shrubby herb to 1 m tall, viscid, glandular-pubescent, with long and short, glandular hairs and fine, simple hairs, aromatic. Leaves sessile, stem-clasping, ovate to oblong,

Claw Lechenaultia

Straggling shrub to about half a metre tall. Leaves small and pointed. Flowers with three large winged petals, the outer part of the petal bright blue. The 2 smaller petals are brown and lack wings.

Claw Lechenaultia

Cleopatra's Needles

Grows to 35cm in height. Early Flowering

Club-lipped spider orchid.

photo by Graeme W. The Club-lipped spider orchid, Caladenia corynephora, found in isolated pockets over the south west of WA