All Wildflowers

Morrison Featherflower

Erect shrub, 0.5-2 m high. Flowers yellow-orange, Oct to Dec or Jan to Feb. Grey/white or brown sand.

Mistletoe

Mistletoes are parasites on trees and shrubs. They use the host plant to provide water and some sugars which are accessed via a specialised structure (haustoria) that penetrates the stem of the host.

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.

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,

Calytrix

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

Lesueur Southern Cross

Prostrate to ascending perennial, herb, 0.2-0.5(-0.9) m high, to 2 m wide. Fl. white-cream-pink, Sep to Dec. Lateritic gravelly soils.

Leafless Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Carbunup King Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Carbunup King Spider Orchid , Caladenia procera, a quite rare orchid found in a small area of the Dunsborough area

Kingia

Not a grasstree, although Kingia does look like one, especially when not in flower. Kingia has a thick trunk made up of accumulated leaf bases. The trunk is usually (but not always) unbranched.

Keraudrenia

Red Kangaroo Paw

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

Ikulyukulyu or upside-down plant

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

Common Firebush

Shrub to 1 m high, rusty-tomentose. Leaves mostly oblong and 1–3 cm long, rarely lanceolate and to 5 cm long, 6–11 mm wide, margins entire or almost so; upper surface glabrous to finely pubescent

Pink Velleia

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

Acacia erinacea

Rigid, prickly, intricate, often prostrate, spreading shrub, 0.1-1.5 m high. Flowers yellow, Jun to Nov. Variety of soils, frequently on clay.

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.

Woolly Head Mat Rush

Grass like perennial forb 20-80cm tall. Leaves basal, with a sheath at the base, 20-80cm long, 1.5-5mm wide, flat. Male and female flowers on different plants. Fragrant flowers.

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.

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,

Eremaea beaufortioides

Spreading shrub, 0.3-2.5 m high with small ovate shaped leaves crowded along the stems. Flowers are orange, approx 15mm across and are at the end of the stems.

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,

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,

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.

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,