All Wildflowers

Wild Kapok

Brilliant yellow flowers are a standout on this small tree to about 5meteres tall. Flowers occur when the tree bare - it is deciduous in the dry season (ie winter months). Smooth grey bark.

Twining Fringe Lily

Twining or prostrate herb; roots tuberous, tubers ellipsoid, c. 1–5 cm long, sessile or shortly stalked from a small rootstock. Leaves annual, 1 or 2, produced infrequently, terete, 10–20 cm long.

Tinsel Lily

Upright stems to 60cm, leaves elongated and pointed. Flowers bright metallic purple with 6 sepals.

Native Stock

Annual to 50 cm high, erect, with sessile, stalked-stellate or irregularly branched hairs. Basal leaves to 12 cm long; stem leaves reducing to entire, sessile. Sepals to 7 mm long.

Prain's Wattle

Erect, bushy shrub or tree, 1-3m high, although sometimes reaching 5m. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand, loam, stony soils.

Chinnock

Erect to spreading shrub, 0.1-0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jan or Mar or May or Aug to Nov. White or red/yellow sand, loam or clay, often over limestone. Roadsides, depressions.

Currant Bush

Rigid, divaricate & spiny shrub, 0.2-2 m high, with dwarf branchlets. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Jan to Dec.

Guinea Flower

A small twiggy shrub to around 30cm in height. It has narrow, fine green leaves with a sharp tip. The flowers are bright yellow and flower durning winter and spring and can be found in the wetter

Silver Banksia

The plant is extremely variable depending on environmental conditions. Most of the silver banksias in the Upper Barwon Region tend to be shrubs ranging from 1m tall (growing on poor heathy soils) to

Bird Orchid

Is the most common of all the Bird Orchids. Grows 20 - 30 cm Distinctive translucent flower Dark green markings

Baxters Banksia

A spreading shrub growing to about 3 meters tall. This species has fairly large rounded flowers yellow in colour. As the flower matures small red anthers appear.

Hakea auriculata

Low growing open shrub with tough spikey leaves. Dense light pink, showy flowers along the branch at the base of the leaves. Growing in sandy/gravelly soil.

Kangaroo Apple

Erect shrub to 2 m high, glabrous except for minute hairs on corolla apices; prickles absent. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 3–8 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, margins usually entire, ± concolorous,

Native Iris

Tufted perennial with long strap like leaves. Spreads by rhizomes. Flower stems shorter than the leaves. Flowers purple/blue with 3 large petals. Growing in sandy soil.

Basketflower

A lanky, erect, lignotuberous shrub, reaching about 1.5m high. Rounded or oval leaves are crowded along the branches. Flowers are quite large, orange-red with prominent hairy styles.

Barrens Regelia

Sparsely branched woody shrub to 3m. Oval leaves about 1cm long in 4 distinct rows along the stems, slightly grey in colour.

Heath Tea Tree

Leptospermum myrsinoides, commonly known as silky tea-tree or heath tea-tree, is a shrub species that is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

Sturt's Desert Pea - unusual colour form

This patch of SDP had pale red to orange petals with a bright pink, pink or whitish "boss" on the standard petal.

Stiff Westringia

Low spreading, straggly or erect, pungent shrub, (0.05-)0.15-1(-1.5) m high. Fl. white, Apr to Nov. Variety of soils, frequently in sandy soils over limestone.

Australian Trefoil

Erect or ascending perennial herb to 60 cm high, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Leaves with 5 leaflets, oblanceolate to ± linear or rarely obovate, mostly 10–30 mm long, 2–5 mm wide,

Royal Hakea

Leaves that glow in the sunlight crown this royal gem. Grows to 2-3 metres in height. The large stiff leaves enclose a cluster of cream or pinkish flowers. The leaves darken with age.

Nodding greenhood Orchid

Joseph's spider orchid - Red version

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.3 m high. Grows in Sand, loam, clay loam. Damp flats. Found between Boyup Brook and Fitzgerald River.

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.