All Wildflowers

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.

Blue Grass-lily

Tufted, glabrous herbaceous perennial; rhizome simple; roots fibrous, most with fusiform tubers 1–4 cm long towards tips. Leaves 8–50 cm long, 1.5–15 mm wide; sheath ± papery.

Poison Morning Glory

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

Wild Parsnip

Erect annual herb to 60 cm high, sometimes with a perennial rootstock; stems sparingly branched, glabrous. Leaves mostly towards the base of the plant, 3–5-lobed to dissected,

Keraudrenia

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,

Pink Velleia

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

Blue-spike Milkwort

Comesperma is a genus of shrubs, herbs and lianas in the family Polygalaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia. It was defined by the French botanist Jacques Labillardière in his 1806 work Novae

Newcastelia cephalantha

Much-branched shrub, 0.3-1.2 m high. Fl. white-purple, Jun to Oct. Red sandy soils. Sandplains, dunes.

Coral Vine

Multicoloured pea flowers stand out on this twining climber. It has glossy green leaves made up of 3 distinct leaflets. Flowers are about 2cm across,

Orange Immortelle

Erect or ascending annual, herb, 0.1-0.6 m high. Fl. red-orange-yellow-white-pink, Jul to Dec or Jan. Sand, clay, loam, gravel, litter, laterite, sandstone, granite. Sand dunes & plains, rocky places,

Painted Featherflower

Erect shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Flowers pink/white, Jul to Nov. Sandy or clayey soils.

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.

Bull Banksia

Tree or shrub (in south coastal areas), 1.5-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan. White or grey sand, laterite.

Ikulyukulyu or upside-down plant

Unique desert species that has the flowers growing at the bottom of the plant.

Parakeelya

Succulent, decumbent annual, herb, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. pink-red, Jul to Oct. Sand, loam. Floodplains, stony plains.

Bristly Guinea Flower

Small erect or diffuse shrub to 40 cm high; branches glabrous except for pubescent new growth. Leaves clustered, narrow-linear, 4–6 mm long, to 0.5 mm wide, margins incurved,

Yellow Lantern Banksia or Lemann's Banksia

Most Banksias have flower heads that grow upwards. This one and a few others are unusual in that the flower heads hang down. Grows as an open shrub or a small tree to 5 m in height,

Boranup Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One of the rare Caladenias only discovered in 2006 by Greg Bussell. Greg is perhaps the foremost expert on orchids in the lower and south west areas .

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.

Boobialla

Glabrous shrub or small tree to 13 m high with coarsely fissured bark, branches smooth or rarely obscurely or prominently tuberculate. Leaves elliptic, usually 5–14 cm long and 7–28 mm wide,

Desert Banksia

Medium size rounded shrub to 2m tall. Leaves wedge shaped, wider towards the tip, with sharply serrated edges. Flower spikes up to 10cm long. Flowers grey-gren in the bud stage,

Bonamia erecta

Shrub, to 0.4 m high. Stems, leaves and buds covered with short golden/brown hairs. Flowers white-cream, Jul. Red sand.

Sea Urchin Hakea

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