All Wildflowers

Red Stem Wattle

A medium sized shrub with dull green phyllodes that produce sufficient nectar from the nectary glands to be attractive to birds and insects.

Grevillea acacioides

Flowers that range in colour from white through cream to green grace this erect, much-branched shrub that grows to 1-2.2 m high. Flowering occurs from May to Sep (mainly Jul-Sep).

Emu Bush

Shrubs to 1.5m. Leaves to 5cm. Different colour forms growing together, with flower colour varying from white through pink to red.

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.

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.

Painted Marianthus

Low, erect, spreading shrub or climber, 0.45-3 m high, to 2.0 m wide. Fl. white-cream, Dec or Jan to May. Sand, clay, loam, gravel, sandstone, laterite, granite. Valleys, ridges, hills, flats,

Trianthema pilosa

A creeping annual herb commonly found partially covered with sand on the top of sand dunes. Flowers have 5 petals and are pinish-white. leaves covered with long hairs.

Snowy River Wattle

A small suckering shrub to about 3m tall that can form thickets. Smaller spherical lemon yellow flowerheads are clustered at the ends of branches. Phyllodes are narrow and blue-green.

Tinsel-flower

Viscid shrub, (0.3-)0.5-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Jul to Nov. Sand, gravel, laterite.

Southern Cross

Xanthosia rotundifolia is an erect or sprawling perennial herb growing 60cm high and spreading about 1m wide. Its common name, Southern Cross,

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,

Pink Daisy - Streptoglossa sp.

Small prostrate plant. Leaves broad, oval with rough hairs. Flower heads 2cm across. Growing in red loam beside watercourse.

Banksia

tentative identification

Diplopeltis huegelii

A sparse shrub growing about 1.5m high and forming a dense roadside colony. Flowers at the ends of branches, each with 4 pale mauve "stalked" petals and 5 sepals.

Qualup Bell

Grows 50 -70cm First green then turns to deep red with age Encloses a cluster of small greenish-yellow flowers

Kondrung

Low or erect spreading shrub, 0.1-1.2 m high, to 2 m wide. Fl. red/pink, Jan to Dec. Often on lateritic soils

Desert Pepperflower

Prostrate to ascending perennial, herb, 0.15-0.4(-0.6) m high, to 4 m wide. Fl. white-pink, Apr to Sep. Sandy or loamy soils. Sandplains, sand dunes, stony flats & hillsides

Emu Bush

Flowers creamy white, some with a pinkish tinge. Leaves long and round in cross section. Small shrub to 2m.

Downy Geranium

Perennial herb to 50 cm high; stems pubescent with soft retrorse hairs often closely appressed, sometimes glabrescent and often rooting at the nodes; taproot thickened.

Lambtails

Lambs Tails is exactly what the flower heads look like. Flower heads appear woolly and white due to a dense covering of hair giving a woolly appearance.

Xanthosia tomentosa

Purple Enamel Orchid

Glossy petals look almost artificial. Photographs reveal muted spots on the petals. Found either singly or in spreading colonies in coastal heath and winter-wet sites.

Mat Mulla Mulla

Prostrate annual, herb, 0.03-0.12 m high, leaves, ovate-spathulate, 7-110 mm long, leaves 2-45 mm wide; spike ovoid-cylindrical, 15-50 mm long; spike 25-40 mm wide; bract 7.5-9 mm long; bracteole 8.