Marble Gum
Boab or Adansonia
Sturt's Desert pea
Gidgee or Stinking Wattle
Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod
Sundew
Honeysuckle Oak or Spider Flower, Desert Grevillea
Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm
Koch's Pigface
Coast Banksia, White Honeysuckle
Frankenia (no common name)
Christmas Tree Mulga
Flannel Flower
Red Flowered Kurrajong
Queen of Sheba Orchid
Umbrella Bush, Sandhill Wattle
Desert Star Flower
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.
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,
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.
Small ground orchid
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.
A distinct yellow spider orchid
This orchid is usually yellow in colour but often crosses with one of the red labellum spider orchds. This is one of the crosses.
Thryptomene ericaea is unique to South Australia. It occurs on Kangaroo Island and, to a lesser extent, on lower Eyre Peninsular. Centenary Starburst is a striking,
Dioecious (separate male and female plants) rhizomatous, caespitose (tufted) perennial, herb, 0.25-0.7 m high. Fl. white, May to Aug. White, grey, yellow or black peaty sand, lateritic soils.
Erect, spreading shrub, 0.3-1 m high, plants glabrous or sometimes hairy, leaves petiolate, never stem-clasping. Fl. white, May to Oct. Stony soils. Rocky hillsides & creeks.
One of our lovely sun orchids that flowers early in the year.
Photo by Graeme W.
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,
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,
Shrub, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Feb to Dec. Variety of soils.
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.
Grows to 100mm - 350mm in height
King in his Carriage Drakaea glyptodon, southwest area
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.
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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gunniopsis kochii, commonly known as the Koch's pigface, is a succulent plant in the iceplant family, Aizoaceae. It is endemic to Australia.
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