All Wildflowers

Common mignonette orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Common Pinheath

Erect shrub, 0.2-1(-1.5) m high. Fl. white-cream, Mar to Jul. Mainly on gravelly lateritic soils.

Common Rice Flower

Erect or straggling shrub to 50 cm high, stems hairy. Leaves ± elliptic to lanceolate, mostly 5–15 mm long, 2–8 mm wide, glabrous. Flowers in bracteate heads; peduncle 2–19 mm long, pubescent,

Common Smokebush

Erect, multi-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. white-other, Jul to Dec. Sand, gravel, laterite. Sandplains.

Common spider orchid

The common white spider orchid, is probably the most misidentified orchid in WA. While common, it has different forms in different areas making for a difficult identification.

Cootamundra Wattle

A large shrub or small tree. Blue-green true leaves. The scientific name of the species honours the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey.

Coppercups

A low sprawling shrub to 1.5m tall. Leaves small. Each of the 5 petals edged with a fringe of hairs. Flowers about 2cm across.

Coral Vine

Multicoloured pea flowers stand out on this twining climber. It has glossy green leaves made up of 3 distinct leaflets. Flowers are about 2cm across,

Corky Honeymyrtle

Straggling low shrub to about 1m. Branches covered with thick ridged corky grey bark. Pinkish-mauve flowers produced directly on woody stems. Grows in sandy areas

Correa backhouseana var. coriacea

Cottonheads

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

Caladenia hybrid Spider Orchid

Caladenia hybrid

Caladenia denticulata subsp. red flowering

This orchid has the same characteristics as the Yellow spider orchid except that the petals are red in colour.

Australian Trefoil

Erect or ascending perennial herb to 60 cm high, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Leaves with 5 leaflets, oblanceolate to ± linear or rarely obovate, mostly 10–30 mm long, 2–5 mm wide,

Azure Daisy Bush

Aromatic shrub or perennial forb to 1.5m tall. Leaves alternating up the stem, often with basal lobes, more or less stem clasping, 1.5-12cm long, 6-40mm wide, flat, hairy to rough, often sticky,

Bacon and Eggs

Small woody shrub. Leaves flat, rounded with pointed tip.

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 ,

Banded Greenhood

Tuberous, perennial, herb, to 0.45 m high. Grows in white, grey or yellow sand, clay, laterite, limestone, granite. Flats, sand plains, slopes, ridges, crests of sand dunes, valley floors.

Banksia

tentative identification

Banksia coccinea

Erect open woody shrub to 4 or 5m high. Leaves ovate or roughly rectangular with toothed margins. Flowers are arranged in short cylindrical spikes about 6-7cm long and 7cm in diameter.

Banksia tridentata possibly

Large, open shrub, pin cushion like flowers in a rusty orange colour with tough holly-like leaves.

Barrens Regelia

Sparsely branched woody shrub to 3m. Oval leaves about 1cm long in 4 distinct rows along the stems, slightly grey in colour.

Barrens Regelia

A large shrub to about 3 metres with attractive, greyish green, velvety leaves to about 13mm long. The large clusters of brilliant red/orange flowers (occasionally yellow) open in spring and are well