All Wildflowers

Bull Banksia

Tree or shrub (in south coastal areas), 1.5-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan. White or grey sand, laterite.

Burrawang or Cycad

Cycads are ancient cone bearing plants that do not produce flowers. They are very slow growing with palm-like leaves extending from a central trunk. Male and female cones are borne on separate plants.

Bush Tomato

Dense low shrub to 50cm high. Leaves deeply lobed, prickly.

Bush Tomato

Low soft shrub. Elongated, grey leaves.

Bush Tomato

Bush Tomato / Flannel bush

Erect or rounded shrub, 0.2-1m high. Fl. purple-violet, Jan or Apr to Oct. depending as to where it is growing. Red-brown clay loam or sandy clay,

Bussells Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. who decided to show how endangered some of our orchids are. This is Bussells Spider Orchid, Caladenia busselliana. It was discovered by Greg Bussell in 1990.

Butterfly Orchid

Cajeput Tree, Paperbark

A familiar sight along watercourses and in swamps across northern Australia. A medium sized tree with bright silvery green foligae and a slightly weeping habit.

Caladenia - Yellow Spider Orchid

The orchid normally has rich yellow petals some times white to pale yellow are seen. The labellum is white with pale red markings. A version with red petals can be found.

Bootlace Oak

Shrub or small tree (1.5) 2–6 (–7.5) m high, apparently lignotuberous (resprouting from base). Branchlets often glaucous, sometimes glabrous,

Black Kangaroo Paw

A small perennial herb with erect green-yellow leaves, occurring with a height between 0.2 to 1.8 metres. The leaves are strap-like, between 200 and 500 mm long,

Boobialla

Glabrous shrub or small tree to 13 m high with coarsely fissured bark, branches smooth or rarely obscurely or prominently tuberculate. Leaves elliptic, usually 5–14 cm long and 7–28 mm wide,

Boab or Adansonia

Families of boabs march across the Kimberley landscape, slim youngsters, sturdy middle aged ones, stout grandparents . Boabs grow into a large tree with swollen bottle shaped trunk.

Black Oak

An enduring desert survivor this rugged tree grows to about 10m tall and has rough dark grey bark. Branchlets are grey-green, smooth and cylindrical, in sections each about 10mm long.

Black Powderpuff

A common fungus found growing in sand in arid and semi-arid areas, often seen along desert tracks. A type of stalked puffball, it has a hard woody stem topped with a papery white cap that appears to

Black-eyed Susan

Small straggling shrub with small heath-like leaves. Bright mauve-purple flowers in spring that tend to hang down obscuring the distinctive black centre.

Bladder Saltbush

Taste the salt. Saltbush copes with salty soil by pumping the salt out onto its leaves. This one is a small shrub to about 1 metre high. Leaves 5-25mm long, 3-15mm wide, flat, oval shaped,

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.

Blue Beard Orchid

Sometimes called Blue Fairy Orchid Common species with long narrow blue leaf Grows 5 - 15cm First blue orchid to flower each season

Blue Flax-Lily

Perennial herb to 1 m high, tufted and solitary, or mat-forming; roots fibrous. Leaves to 85 cm long; sheath conduplicate, ± completely occluded; blade 4–12 mm wide.

Blue Grass-lily

Tufted, glabrous herbaceous perennial; rhizome simple; roots fibrous, most with fusiform tubers 1–4 cm long towards tips. Leaves 8–50 cm long, 1.5–15 mm wide; sheath ± papery.

Blue Hakea

This most unusual Hakea occurs in south-western W.A. from York to Manjimup and east to Jerramungup, including in the Porongorup and Stirling Ranges. It grows in heath or mallee-heath,

Blue Heronsbill

A spash of bright blue against red sand - Erodium cygnorum is a low growing herb commonly found in sandy desert areas. Leaves have 3 main lobes each of which is roughly oval in shape with a lobed