All Wildflowers

Longleaved Cone Bush

This unusual shrub appears as a tuft of elongated rounded (terete) leaves about 30cm high with flowerheads and old seed capsules nestled at ground level, in among the leaf bases.

Macarthuria australis

Erect or ascending, spreading, wiry shrub, 0.15-0.75 m high. Fl. white/white-cream, May to Dec or Jan to Feb (mainly Aug-Sep). Sand or laterite. Coastal sandplains, sandhills, roadsides.

Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm

These ancient plants were abundant when dinosaurs were here. Macrozamia dyeri is a palm-like plant (but not a palm) with a short stout trunk above ground, reaching a diameter of 1 metre or more,

Mangles Kangaroo Paw, red-and-green kangaroo paw

Iridescent red and green flowers make Mangles Kangaroo Paw one of Australia's most recognised wildflowers. It is a rhizotomous perennial with long, grey-green linear leaves up to 60 cm long.

Mantis Orchid, Spider Orchid

Small ground orchid

Marble Gum

A large desert gum reaching over 20m high. Bark smooth throughout, white, shedding in brownish short ribbons or in small polygonal flakes. Leaves are dull green 4 - 6cm long, 1-2cm wide.

Margaret River Spider Orchid

A distinct yellow spider orchid

Margaret River Spider Orchid hybrid

This orchid is usually yellow in colour but often crosses with one of the red labellum spider orchds. This is one of the crosses.

Lodges spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Lodges spider orchid, Caladenia lodgeana. This is a late flowering orchid, flowering in November December. It is also uncommon , found in the lower south west ,

Lemon Scented Sun Orchid

One of our lovely sun orchids that flowers early in the year.

Leaping Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Leaping Spider Orchid

It is identified by its leaping posture.

Kangaroo Thorn

Erect or spreading shrub 1–4 m high; bark finely fissured, brownish grey; branchlets ± terete with low ridges, ± hairy. Stipules spinescent, slender, mostly 5–15 mm long.

Karri Snail orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.08-0.29 m high. Fl. green, Jul to Nov. Sandy loam-clay, laterite clay over granite, shallow mossy soils. Winter damp flats, in forests, on rocks and around rock bases,

Karri Spider Orchid

A high rainfall late flowering spider orchid growing between 300 and 600 mm tall,with a single hairy leaf.The orchid can have up to three variably red, green,

Keraudrenia

Keraudrenia velutina

Shrub, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Feb to Dec. Variety of soils.

Kick Bush

Usually prostrate or sometimes diffuse to erect shrub, 0.05-0.3(-0.4) m high. Fl. yellow/cream, Jan to Dec. Yellow/grey sand, red/brown laterite gravel, brown clay to sandy clay, ironstone, limestone.

Kimberley Rose

Kimberley Rose

King in his Carriage Orchid

Grows to 100mm - 350mm in height

King in his Carriage orchid

King in his Carriage Drakaea glyptodon, southwest area

Kingia

Not a grasstree, although Kingia does look like one, especially when not in flower. Kingia has a thick trunk made up of accumulated leaf bases. The trunk is usually (but not always) unbranched.

Knife-leaf wattle - Acacia cultriformis

A wiry erect shrub that grows to a rounded shrub about 4m. Has grey triangular shaped phyllodes. Bears large golden ball shaped flowers in spring.