All Wildflowers

Fringe Lily

Thysanotus used to be included in the lily family (Liliaceae) Fringed lilies are small soft herbs, sometimes a climber. Each flower has 3 sepals and 3 large fringed petals. Common across Australia.

Cryptandra

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

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).

Red Bugle

A tufted herb with wiry strap-like leaves about 30cm long. Spreads by rhizomes. Flowers are slightly hairy, tubular, 2-3cm long, arranged on spikes that are shorter than the leaves.

Barrier Saltbush

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

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.

Cape Range Poverty Bush

Sturdy shrub to 1.5m. Leaves crowded along stems, about 2cm long, oval, densely covered with short felted hairs. Younger leaves have a distinctive yellow colour. Flowers tomentose,

Claw Lechenaultia

Straggling shrub to about half a metre tall. Leaves small and pointed. Flowers with three large winged petals, the outer part of the petal bright blue. The 2 smaller petals are brown and lack wings.

Greencomb Spider Orchid

This Orchid is a delicate, to 650cm high. Leaves hairy to 6cm long and 2cm wide. flowers are intricate, spider like, of various colours, green, white, yellow, maroon and red.

Xanthosia tomentosa

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.

Hakea marginata

An open shrub to about 4 or 5 metres tall. Leaves are tough, elliptical in shape with a sharp point and slightly thickened, entire margins. Clusters of small white flowers appear in the leaf axils.

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.

Muntries

Kunzea pomifera Some known Aboriginal names:Munta, ngerp, nurp, nurt (Boanditj), Mantirri (Kaurna). Manter (Ngaiawang), Mantari (Ramindjeri), Mantar (Jaril) Common names Munterberry, Muntries,

Cape spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. This yellow orchid is the cape spider, the very rare Caladenia caesarea.

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.

Short-sepaled spider orchid

Growing in sandy soil beside salt pan. About 20cm high. Sepals with small knobby club, petals curled at ends. No fringe on labellum.

Silver Box

A small tree with rough box-type bark. Adult leaves retain their juvenile form, they are large about 15x8cm, waxy-grey (glaucous) and the same colour on both sides, opposite and sessile.

Rough Spider-flower - Kangaroo Island Endemic

Low spreading shrub 0.3–1.0 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly oblong to sublinear-subterete, usually plump, 0.2–1.7 cm long, 1.0–2.1 mm wide; margins revolute; upper surface muricate; lower surface

River Cooba

Erect or spreading tree 4–13 m high, often suckers; bark fissured, dark grey-brown; branchlets angled or flattened towards apices, glabrous or sometimes finely hairy, often ± pruinose.

Tinsel Lily

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

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,

Barrens Regelia

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