All Wildflowers

Creeping Mulla Mulla

Prostrate creeper. Leaves oval to lance shaped. Flower heads made of many small flowers. The heads have a fluffy appearance due to feathery bracts surrounding the small flowers.

Goodenia centralis

Prostrate annual, herb, stems to 80 cm long. Fl. yellow, May to Sep. Red sandy, often stony soils.

Cryptandra

Rounded dense shrub to 1m tall. Leaves spear shaped, about 1.5cm long tapering to a pointed end.

Cup Velleia

An erect herb growing to about 60cm high. Basal leaves oblong in shape 5–20 cm long, to 8 cm wide, margins toothed to lobed, smooth, grey green.

Caltrop, Yellow Vine or Cat-head

A weed. Tribulus species are summer growing annuals that occur throughout mainland Australia and have high drought tolerance. The plant is a spreading vine.

Grey Swainsona

Prostrate or erect, spreading perennial, herb, 0.15-0.6 m high. Fl. purple-pink/purple & yellow & green, May or Jul to Dec. Usually on red sandy soils.

Grevillea victoriae

A spreading, sometimes straggling shrub that grows up to about 2m high. Leaf shape is oval, often quite broad, up to 7cm long. The lower leaf surface is covered with a tomentum (covering of short

Tiny Violet

Perennial herb with short, erect stems, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Leaves tufted, lamina broad-ovate to ovate-rhombic, mostly 0.5–15 mm long, 0.5–12 mm wide,

Banksia

tentative identification

Grand spider orchid, Caladenia huegelii.

Photo by Graeme W. Confirmed as Grand spider orchid, Caladenia huegelii. This red and white spider orchid only occurs in a very small area and flowers later than others Caladenias.

Homoranthus darwinioides

Open shrub. Leaves small and slightly compressed. Flowers small, in pairs, white when young turning red with age. Curved styles extended beyond the petals.

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,

Barrier Saltbush

Prostrate to erect shrub, 0.1-0.6(-2) m high. Fl. May to Sep. Variety of soils, often saline.

Emu Bush

Large shrub to 3m. Flowers mauve/purple, calyx pink. Leaves long and felt covered giving a greyish colour.

Verticordia acerosa

Open shrub, 0.2-1(-1.7) m high. Fl. yellow/orange-red-brown, Aug to Nov. White or yellow sand, sandy gravel, stony loam, laterite. Granite outcrops, hills, sandplains, clay flats, damp depressions.

Bonamia erecta

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

Hemigenia pachyphylla

A tough woody shrub growing to about 3m high. Conspicuous white flowers marked with red streaks. Flowers in leaf axils. Leaves thick (hence the name pachyphylla meaning thick leaf) with mid vein.

Coastal Wattle

Dense shrub or tree (rarely), 0.8-4(-7) m high. Fl. yellow, Sep to Dec or Jan to May. White/grey sand. Coastal sand dunes & limestone.

Frankenia cinerea

Shrub, 0.1-0.3(-0.45) m high. Fl. white & pink, Aug to Oct. White/grey sand, laterite, clay. Salt lakes & pans, breakaways.

Blue Lace Flower

Photos taken on New Years Day 2015, flowers at the end of their season. Flowers blue/white/purple, Oct to Dec or Jan to Mar. Erect annual or biennial, herb, 0.1-2 m high. Sand, loam,

Common Fringe-Myrtle

Shrub to 0.5–2 m high; terminal buds with bud scales. Leaves linear, 1–12 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, margins often finely toothed or ciliate; petiole to 1.5 mm long. Bracteoles 2–4.5 mm long,

Emu Bush

Woody shrub to 1.5m. Thick oval leaves are slightly hairy. Flowers subtended by narrow pale pink bracts. Inside of flower marked with mauve spots and stripes.

Claw Lechenaultia