All Wildflowers

Desert Fuschia

Prostrate, spreading or erect shrub, 0.1-1.2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Mar to Nov. Red-brown sand, clay or loam soils, laterite. Stony flats, low rises, flat plains, granite outcrops.

Desert Heath Myrtle

Shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high (-1.8). Fl. white/pink, Apr to Oct (probably opportunistic). Red sand, yellow clayey soil, laterite, sandstone, granite. Sand dunes, sandplains, high rocky sites.

Desert Lime

A desert tree growing to 5 meters that has thorns while small to deter grazing by kangaroos. After reaching sufficient height it stops growing the thorns.

Desert or Native Poplar

Spread right across the arid inland the native poplar is a pyramidal shrub or tree, 2-10 m high. Flowres are yellow-green and occur between April and October. Grows in Red sand, loam or gravel,

Desert Pepperflower

Prostrate to ascending perennial, herb, 0.15-0.4(-0.6) m high, to 4 m wide. Fl. white-pink, Apr to Sep. Sandy or loamy soils. Sandplains, sand dunes, stony flats & hillsides

Desert Star Flower

A small to medium shrub with extremely small leaves and pink to purple star shaped flowers.

Digger's Speedwell, Blue Veronica

This unusual low shrub can be found in the understorey between about 700 to 1200m where it often masquerades as a small eucalypt. Its blue-grey, rounded leaves are in pairs,

Diplopeltis huegelii

A sparse shrub growing about 1.5m high and forming a dense roadside colony. Flowers at the ends of branches, each with 4 pale mauve "stalked" petals and 5 sepals.

Diuris picta

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.35 m high. Fl. cream & white & purple/yellow & brown & purple, Sep to Oct. Sand, loam. Wet seepages, run-off areas around granite outcrops.

Dodonaea rigida

Widespread across desert areas. Erect shrub, 0.7-2 m high. Sandy soils. Sand dunes, rocky ironstone rises.

Donkey Orchid

Geraldton wax

Dense shrub to 3m. Leaves are cylindrical with a hooked point. The name uncinatum means "hooked" in Latin, in reference to the tips of the leaves. Flowers are 1.

Erect yellow heads

Annual herb, stems erect, 5–30 cm long, nearly glabrous to cottony. Leaves lanceolate to linear, 4–34 mm long, c. 0.5–4 mm wide, midrib ± prominent on lower surface, glabrous to cottony,

Eremophila

Flowers are. blue-purple/white-blue, Erect, flat topped shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Grows on red sandy soils over laterite or granite. Stony grounds, rocky rises & hillsides, plains.

Flannel Cudweed

Prostrate to decumbent annual, herb, 0.01-0.12 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand or loam, granitic soils. Variety of habitats.

Flannel Flower

The delicate flannel flower is so named because of the soft woolly feel of the plant. Growing in the NSW south coast region, extending to Narrabri in the Central West and up to south-east Queensland,

Flat Topped Yate

A graceful small to medium sized tree,growing to about 15m tall. Bark is rough, fibrous and flaky on trunk. Leaves elongated and form a typically umbrella shaped flat crown to the tree.

Fleshy Groundsel or Annual Yellowtop

Erect, fleshy annual, herb, to 1 m high. Fl. yellow, May to Oct. Red or brown or white-grey clay, red sands or loams, laterite, sandstone. Flats, dunes, depressions, saline sites, clay pans,

Floating Pond Weed

Possibly Potamogeton tricarinatus - see ref below - but was photographed at Hidden Secret Rockhole in the Doctor Hicks Rng GVD, which is a long long way outside the known range.

Flying Duck Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Forest Mint

A common species in mountain gullies in the ACT, where it prefers shady places near water. It is a small plant with weak stems. Leaves are about 2cm long with almost entire margins.

Forrest Mantis Orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Frail Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Another of our very rare orchids , the Frail Spider Orchid, Caladenia uliginosa.

Frankenia (no common name)

Small densely branched shrubs; branches differentiated into long- and short-shoots, short-pilose, hairs spreading to lightly curved, internodes 0.6-7.5 mm long; long-shoot leaves 2.8-6.