All Wildflowers

Dolphin Wattle

Triangular, dolphin shaped phyllodes (modified leaf stalks that look like and act as leaves) is the memorable characteristic of this small shrub.

Donkey Orchid

Donkey Orchid

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.

Ghost Gum

Tree to 20m tall, with open spreading crown. Small branches droop downwards. Smooth white bark. Grows on both sandy country and on stony hills and plateaux.

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.

Eremophila - Desert Pride

Erect, spindly shrub, 0.9-2(-3.5) m high. Fl. yellow/pink & cream/white, Aug to Oct. Red sand, clay loam, clay. Flats, claypans, sand plains.

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.

Frankenia cinerea

Shrub, 0.1-0.3(-0.45) m high. Fl. white & pink, Aug to Oct. White/grey sand, laterite, clay. Salt lakes & pans, breakaways.

Fringe Lily

The stems, up to 1 metre long, twine around vegetation or trail along the ground.

Fringe Lily

Thysanotus used to be included in the lily family (Liliaceae) Fringed lilies are small soft herbs, sometimes a climber. Each flower has 3 sepals and 3 large fringed petals. Common across Australia.

Fringed Daisy Bush - Kangaroo Island Endemic

Dwarf undershrub to 25cm high, with rough hairy stems and tightly compacted, tiny leaves.

Fringed Leek Orchid

Spectacular early flowering Leek Orchid Grows 30 - 100cm Up to 70 brownish-green pink and white flowers

Fringed Leek Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Fringed Leek Orchid, Prasophyllum fimbria which can be common in the general southwest of WA area but usually only flowers after fire.

Fringed Mantis Orchid

the Fringed Mantis differs from other members of the C. falcata complex in having larger flowers and a broader labellum with a smaller calli.

Fuchsia Grevillea

Spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2m-1 m high. Fl. orange-red, Mar or May to Dec or Jan. Granitic soils, sand, loamy clay, lateritic soils. Granite outcrops, hills, sometimes winter-wet flats.