All Wildflowers

Painted Lady

This slender little bush with small narrow leaves has some of the most striking flowers of the pea family. Flowers are pink/mauve with reddish tinges,

Painted Marianthus

Low, erect, spreading shrub or climber, 0.45-3 m high, to 2.0 m wide. Fl. white-cream, Dec or Jan to May. Sand, clay, loam, gravel, sandstone, laterite, granite. Valleys, ridges, hills, flats,

Pale Fanflower

Prostrate to ascending herb to 50 cm high, often woody at base, with curled simple hairs or glabrous. Flowering all year Leaves obovate to elliptic, 0.6–5 cm long, 1–25 mm wide,

Paper Flower

Thomasia is a genus of thirty relatively unknown Australian species belonging to the family Malvaceae. Plants in this family are usually characterised by having a large,

Parakeelya

Small annual herb with elongated succulent leaves. Flowers 2cm across, 10cm high. Growing in shell based grit.

Parakeelya

Succulent, decumbent annual, herb, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. pink-red, Jul to Oct. Sand, loam. Floodplains, stony plains.

Parakeelya

A prostrate annual forbs, with erect flower stems. Leaves are basal, succulent ans are linear or wide in either the upper or lower part, with tapered ends,

Pea - Thinicola incana

Tall open shrub. Orange/red pea flowers and greyish furry leaves. Growing in deep red sand.

Pear Fruited Mallee

A medium sized mallee to 4m. Large rounded buds, 2-2.5cm across. Large showy flowers variable in colour ranging from cream through pink to red. Fruit (gumnut) large and flattened.

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Flowers pink and yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Pendant spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Pendant spider orchid, Caladenia pendans from the Dunsborough area. This population of the pendant spider orchid is only in an area of 50 or so square meters and usually occurs

Petrophile sp.

Open shrub with cream flower spikes. Leaves tough with sharp points.

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Fl. pink & yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Kangaroo Paw - (Tentative) Bicolor subsp. extans

Spindly, low growing plant to 50cm. Flower bright red and green but not as intense as Mangles Kangaroo Paw. Growing in sandy gravel roadside.

Pink Fan Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The little Pink Fan Orchid, Caladenia nana. The white one is undescribed. Common in spring in burnt bushland the year after a burn. Found all over the southwest of WA.

Prickly Starwort, Prickly Knawel

This little perennial herb can be either prostrate or ascending and may form loose mats. It has angular stems that are variously hairy or glabrous. Leaves are usually recurved, narrow-lanceolate,

Prince of Wales Feather

Erect or ascending annual or perennial, herb, 0.15-1.5 m high. Fl. green-white-yellow-brown, Apr to Nov or Jan. Red soils, sand, sandstone. Stony hills, plateaus.

Kangaroo Grass

Kangaroo grass is native to Australia and Africa. It is one of the most widespread native grasses in Australia growing in every state and territory, from interior arid regions to the alps and coast.

Purple Beard Orchid

Leaf linear to lanceolate, to 30 cm long and 13 mm wide, dark green. Inflorescence to 46 cm high, 1–5-flowered. Sepals and lateral petals reddish brown with darker stripes. Labellum c. 15 mm long,

Purple Enamel Orchid

Glossy petals look almost artificial. Photographs reveal muted spots on the petals. Found either singly or in spreading colonies in coastal heath and winter-wet sites.

Purple Pansy Orchid

Grows to 35cm in height. Can have up to eight flowers on one stem. Flowers are often Mauve, Fawn and Purple in colour

Purple Pansy Orchid

One of our donkey orchids

Purple Pansy Orchid

Purslane, Pigweed

Found worldwide, purslane is native in parts of Australia but a weed elsewhere. Succulent, prostrate (flat or trailing) to decumbent(flat with ends of stems turned up) annual, herb, to 20 cm high.