All Wildflowers

Mulla Mulla

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

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.

Clubbed Spider Orchid

Growing up to 400 mm high. Two greenish/yellow white red flowers. Fawnish-yellow clubbed petals and sepals. Fairly long fringe segments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

Thyme Rice-flower

Erect dioecious shrub to 1.5 m high, stunted or prostrate in exposed positions, stems glabrous. Leaves crowded, narrow-elliptic to spathulate, 4–12 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, concave at least when dry.

Great Mullein - a weed

Erect, robust biennial, herb, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. yellow and is not an Australian Native.

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,

Grey Germander

Perennial herb 15–40 cm high, hoary, suckering and forming stands to several meters diam.; branches densely hairy; hairs simple, retrorse, ± appressed, usually wearing off along the ridges.

Sea Urchin Hakea

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

Scaly Phebalium

Shrub to 2m tall, sometimes compact. Small brownish scales cover stems and underside of leaves. Leaves narrow, up to 5cm long. Flowers with 5 petals and 10 long erect stamens,

Shrubby Bluebush

Shrub or perennial forb to 1.5m tall. Often spiny branches. Leaves succulent, alternating up the stems, 0.2-0.6cm long, flat to flattened cylindrical, hairy.

Rough Halgania

Silky Grevillea, Golden Grevillea, Fern-leaved Grevillea

A brilliant and familiar site along roads in the Kimberley, NT and N. Qld. Usually grows in sandy soils that may become seasonally wet. May be a tree to 8 or 10m tall or a dense spreading shrub.

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.

Red Kangaroo Paw

Largish flower stems in a light red. Inside of flower a creamy colour. Growing roadside in gravelly soil.

Purslane, Pigweed

Found worldwide, purslane is native in parts of Australia but a weed elsewhere. Succulent, prostrate (flat or trailing) to decumbent(flat with ends of stems turned up) annual, herb, to 20 cm high.

Poison Morning Glory

Spreading creeper, dark green heart shaped leaves, purple/mauve/pink flowers that are funnel shaped and 7 or 8cm across.

Pink Velvet Bush

Pink Velvet Bush is a shrub that is up to 1.5 m high. The narrow oblong leaves are 4-9 cm long and 0.5-3 cm wide, and are hairless above and covered with rusty hairs below.

Pink Velleia

Annual, herb, 0.02-0.5 m high. Fl. pink/pink-blue, Apr or Jul to Oct. Sandy or loamy soils.