All Wildflowers

Eremophila serrulata - Green Fuchsia Bush

Intricate, often resinous shrub to 2.5 m high, branches pubescent, hairs branched. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 2–6 cm long, 9–10 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, margins entire or toothed, pubescent.

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.

Erodiophyllum elderi - Hard Heads

Perennial woody forb to 50cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-10cm long, 20-30mm wide, flat, hairy to bristly, deeply lobed, the lobes toothed. Flower heads with 15-25 violet to purple,

Upside Down Plant

Widespread in desert areas, this little plant looks confused about which way is up. Low, tufted shrub, growing to about 0.6 m high. The leaves are reduced leaving the much-branched,

Fairy Fan-flower

Scaevola aemula is a member of the family Goodenaceae. The widely known common name is Fairy Fan-flower, which pertains to the small size of the S. aemula plants.

Beaufortia macrostemon

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

Banksia tridentata possibly

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

Eremophila

Astrostipa nitida

Tufted perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.2-0.75 m high. Fl. green, Jul to Dec. Sand, loam, laterite, limestone.

Felted Anthotroche

Erect or sprawling to prostrate shrub, 0.1-2.5 m high. Fl. green-yellow-purple/black-violet, Aug to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sandy soils. Sand dunes, sandplains or sandy rises in low-lying saline areas.

Australian Box-thorn

Intricately branched shrub to 2.5 m with rigid branches; lateral branches leafy, often ending in a spine. Leaves usually clustered, narrowly obovoid to ellipsoid, to 25 mm long, thick and fleshy,

Wells' Dampiera

Tufted perennial, herb, 0.05-0.25(-0.4) m high, leaves glabrous. Fl. blue, Aug to Dec or Jan. Sandy & clayey soils, gravel, laterite. Undulating plains

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.

Correa backhouseana var. coriacea

Bluerod

Faintly scented perennial herbs to > 80 cm high, sometimes suckering, with erect branches, glabrous but rarely for tiny aculeate non-glandular hairs on the branches and leaves,

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.

Coast Beard heath

Erect shrub or small tree, 120–500 cm high; branchlets finely pubescent. Leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, 11–29 mm long, 2.4–7.5 mm wide; apex sometimes recurved; margins ± recurved,

Candles

Stackhousia monogyna is the most widespread species and can be found in alpine areas and in coastal districts in heath, grassland, woodland and open forest. It has erect,

Creek Wilga

Glabrous resinous shrub or small tree to 7 m high, branches non-tuberculate. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 7–20 cm long, 4.5–14 mm wide, apex attenuate, margins entire or rarely toothed,

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.

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.

Blue Flax-Lily

Perennial herb to 1 m high, tufted and solitary, or mat-forming; roots fibrous. Leaves to 85 cm long; sheath conduplicate, ± completely occluded; blade 4–12 mm wide.

Calytrix

Small bush, about 60cm high. Both colours of flowers originate from same stem - they are parts of the same flower.

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.