All Wildflowers

Banksia tridentata possibly

Large, open shrub, pin cushion like flowers in a rusty orange colour with tough holly-like leaves.

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,

Emu Bush

Straggling low shrub, growing in red sand. Pale blue flowers with pale pink/mauve bracts. Broad leaves covered in dense short grey hairs giving a matted appearance.

Graceful Honeymyrtle

Shrub, 0.3-2.4 m high. Fl. pink-purple/white, Jul to Nov. Sandy, often gravelly soils over granite or laterite. Associated with granite rocks or watercourses.

Red Lechenaultia

Eye popping brilliant red or orange-red flowers almost dwarf this low shrub. It only grows to 20cm tall, and often is much smaller. May be prostrate or upright. Leaves about 5mm long.

Desert Banksia

The Desert Banksia (Banksia ornata) is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia which grows up to 3 m tall. It occurs in western Victoria, and in South Australia,

Eremophila tietkensii

Spreading shrub, to 2 m high. Fl. white/blue/purple, Apr to Sep. Red sand, red to brown silty loam, red-brown skeletal loam over ironstone, gravel, laterite, dolerite, limestone.

Red Kangaroo Paws

Velvety crimson flower heads are a striking sight in the bush or along roadsides. Tufted plant up to 1m tall when flowering. Leaves are strap-like and erect, to about 40cm.

Waddy Wood

To 10m high with wispy to dense pendulous branches resembling casuarinas. Young trees have stiff foliage with sharp points, probably as a defence against browsers.

Grassy Bindweed

Perennial with trailing and twining branches; stems terete, sparsely to densely appressed hairy. Leaves fairly uniform in shape from base to tip of stem; lamina ovate or oblong, 1–8 cm long,

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.

Granite Kunzea

Forms a dense gnarled bush up to 2m tall. Leaves grey green, broad, lance shaped. Flowers about 2cm across. Flowers brilliant red although white forms exist. Grows on granite outcrops.

Mountain Shaggy Pea

This spreading shrub is common in alpine and subalpine areas in Vic, NSW and the ACT. It is showy when in flower over the summer months. The leaves are oblong to elliptical, 2 to 4cm long,

Beaufortia macrostemon

Spreading shrub, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. red, Sep to Dec or Jan. Gravelly lateritic soils.

Bussells Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. who decided to show how endangered some of our orchids are. This is Bussells Spider Orchid, Caladenia busselliana. It was discovered by Greg Bussell in 1990.

Spinifex (Triodia)

Tennis Ball Banksia

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-3.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sand, clay loam, gravel, spongolite, laterite. Hills, top of breakaways.

Dead Finish

So tough that when everything else is "dead and finished" this acacia will still be hanging in there. Widespread in arid inland areas. A prickly shrub with a straggling, spreading habit.

Keraudrenia

Native Cornflower

Tufted perennial, herb or shrub, 0.05-0.4 m high. Fl. blue, May to Oct. Red sand. Sand dunes, stony hills, sandplains.

Eremophila lachnocalyx or Wooly Calyx Eremophila

Erect, spreading shrub, 0.6-2.2 m high, to 3 m wide. Wooly leaves and calyx. Flowers blue-purple, Jun to Sep. Clay, sand, Stony flats & ridges.

Narrow Leaved Spyridium

A small shrub with furry branches and narrow leaves. The flowers are white velvety leaves surrounded by tiny yellow flowers.

Sea Urchin Hakea

Erect shrub or tree, to 9 m high. Fl. pink & cream, Mar to Jul. Loam, granite. Outcrops.

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.