All Wildflowers

Common Everlasting

Chrysocephalum apiculatum is a very variable species which is not surprising given its very extensive distribution. It is usually a small, spreading perennial or shrub up to about 0.

Lomandra nigricans

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.

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.

Early Nancy

Small plant with strap type leaves growing in a crack in rocks. The flower has six petals and is approximately 30 > 40 mm across. Widespread and common in a range of habitats throughout southem

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.

Bird Orchid

Clustered Finger-flower

Low shrub to 50cm high. Leaves are narrow, 1-6cm long by 1cm wide, rolled over edges. The flowers are blue, with yellow anthers, 5 petalled and flower during spring.

Mulla Mulla

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

Cauliflower Hakea

Dense prickly foliage and flowers packed tight as in a cauliflower marks this unusual Hakea. Its not the most attractive Hakea, but one of the more distinctive ones. It grows to about one metre high.

Old Man Saltbush

Atriplex nummularia is widespread across much of drylands of central and southern Australia [1]. It extends from the wheatbelt region of Western Australia,

Yellow Feather Flower

A small shrub to 50cm with small almost succulent leaves. Growing in sandy or gravelly soil in heathland. Common in places.

Paper Flower

Thomasia is a genus of thirty relatively unknown Australian species belonging to the family Malvaceae. Plants in this family are usually characterised by having a large,

Burrawang or Cycad

Cycads are ancient cone bearing plants that do not produce flowers. They are very slow growing with palm-like leaves extending from a central trunk. Male and female cones are borne on separate plants.

Bulbine Lily

Widespread and quite common across temperate parts of eastern states. Bulbine forms clumps and sometimes big colonies in temperate grassland and grassy woodlands.

Bristly Sea-heath

Low spreading shrub or bushy herb to 30 cm high and 50 cm diam., hairs short, spreading. Leaves ovate to oblong or elliptic, 3–9 mm long, margins recurved, midrib and some of lower surface exposed,

Showy Dryandra

Common, dense, often columnar shrub to 1.5 m tall with serrated leaves 20 - 25cm long.

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,

Blue Squill

Chamaescilla corymbosa var. corymbosa is an ephemeral (ie short lived) herb. Linear, strap shaped leaves grow from a tuber. Flowers about 2cm across have 6 tepals,

Scarlet bloodroot

A perennial herb to one meter high. Although it is not a grass, it has a grass-like appearance, with strap-like, narrow, leathery leaves arising from the base of the plant.

Kopi Poverty Bush

Erect shrub or tree, 1-5 m high. Fl. cream-yellow-orange-pink, Jul to Dec. Red sandy soils. Salt lake country, claypans, alkali flats

Tufted Bluebell

A vigorous herb with a fleshy, creeping root system. The dark green foliage grows to approximately 30cm tall. Blue bell shaped flowers 15mm across are produced abundantly from Spring to Autumn,

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

Dunna Dunna

Erect, cactus-like shrub, (0.1-)0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green, Jul to Dec. Sandy soils, clay. Gypsum & limestone ridges, near salt lakes.

Rock Isotome

Tucked in among rocks, where there is shelter and moisture. Erect, spreading annual or perennial, herb with toothed soft leaves, (0.1-)0.2-0.6(-1) m high. Fl. blue/blue-purple, Feb to Nov.