All Wildflowers

Sundew - Drosera - Unknown Species

Found growing in a damp rocky area in the Stirling Range, W.A. About 10 cm high, reddish in appearance, with sticky hairs on the roundish leaves.

Crowea angustifolia var. platyphylla

A slender erect shrub growing to about 2m. Soft leaves are elliptical in shape, about 2cm wide, with toothed margins. White or occasionally pink 5-petalled, star shaped flowers about 2.

Astroloma glaucescens

A low compact shrub with bright red tubular flowers. Small leaves are crowded along the stems and have very sharp points.

Common Cat's Paw

Short tufted plants with strap-like leaves to 20cm.

Black Kennedia or Black Coral Pea

Dramatic black and yellow pea flowers make this vigorous climber a really special plant to find in the wild. The dark green leaves have 3 leaflets and are all up about 15cm long - sometimes not all

Blue Lechenaultia

The bluest of all wild flowers.

Ashby's Banksia

Low shrub. Leaves greyish, strongly serrated. Flowers orange/yellow. Growing on sand dune.

Common Rice Flower

Erect or straggling shrub to 50 cm high, stems hairy. Leaves ± elliptic to lanceolate, mostly 5–15 mm long, 2–8 mm wide, glabrous. Flowers in bracteate heads; peduncle 2–19 mm long, pubescent,

Cyanostegia or Tinsel Flower

With its startling purple flowers, Cyanostegia could almost be mistaken for a weed. But its a true Australian native. Rounded, open woody shrub to about 1m. Oval leaves with serrated edges.

Blue Tinsel Lily

Brilliant metallic purple flowers are a feature of this straggling low shrub. The stems are tangled and covered with small sharply pointed leaves. Growing in heath on white sand.

Augusta Bee Orchid

One of the rarer WA donkey orchids.

Bush Tomato / Flannel bush

Erect or rounded shrub, 0.2-1m high. Fl. purple-violet, Jan or Apr to Oct. depending as to where it is growing. Red-brown clay loam or sandy clay,

Common Heath

The plant family Ericaceae (heaths and heathers) is widespread in many parts of the globe, particularly Europe and South Africa. It contains a number of widely cultivated plants such as Erica,

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.

Bootlace Oak

Shrub or small tree (1.5) 2–6 (–7.5) m high, apparently lignotuberous (resprouting from base). Branchlets often glaucous, sometimes glabrous,

Derwent Speedwell

Woody herb to c. 140 cm high; stems several or many from a large woody rootstock, mostly erect and unbranched below inflorescence, glabrous or with short,

Woolly Mat-rush

Perennial tussock, small to robust; rhizomes ascending. Leaves flat, rigid, coarsely veined, 20–60 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide; apex acute to rounded; sheath margins white or orange-brown.

Eremophila

Poached Egg Daisy

After rain desert areas burst into life, with these everlasting daisies leading the charge. Previously named Myriocephalus stuartii. Grows on sand. Annual to about 50cm,

Mulla Mulla

Low shrub to 0.5m with narrow leaves. Flower heads on long stalks held well above foliage.

Sturt's Pigface

Hemispherical, divaricate shrub with hairy branches. Leaves terete, subterete or ± flattened, to c. 50 mm long. Flowers pedicellate. Perianth segments triangular, to c.

Eremophila gilesii

Eremophila gilesii is a small, spreading shrub to about 1 metre high by 2 metres across. The leaves are somewhat hairy, up to 60 mm long by 3 mm wide and linear to narrowly elliptical in shape.

Resurrection Plant

Just what this plant looks like will depend on weather conditions and time of year. In dry conditions it will appear to be brown and almost dead - after rain it "resurrects" itself as the leaves turn

Bird Orchid