All Wildflowers

Jug Orchid

Unusual striped flowers make the jug orchid unmistakeable. The plant grows up to about half a meter tall with several elongated leaves clasping the flowering stem.

Diuris picta

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.35 m high. Fl. cream & white & purple/yellow & brown & purple, Sep to Oct. Sand, loam. Wet seepages, run-off areas around granite outcrops.

Donkey Orchid

Island Boronia

Small and sometimes bushy shrub to around 50cm high. Leaves are small in threes, flowering over a long period during spring. The flowers have four petals and is confined to Kangaroo Island and is

Sunshine Wattle

Thick shrub 1 to 2m tall with compound leaves, 8-16 pairs of leaflets on each leaf section. Flower heads are spherical, bright yellow, arranged in open clusters at the ends of branches.

Hopbush

Forget flowers, its the colourful seed pods that look a bit like hops used to flavour beer that make these plants distinctive. Much branched, dense low shrub to 1m high.

Swamp Banksia

Tree or shrub, 1.5-12 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow/orange-yellow, Mar to Aug. Grey or black peaty sand. Low-lying, seasonally damp areas, along watercourses

Swamp Paperbark

Melaleuca halmaturorum has two widely separated occurrences. In eastern Australia it is found in western Victoria and southeastern South Australia, including Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island [1].

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.

Sweet Appleberry

Robust shrubby twiner or scrambler, stems to a few metres long. Adult leaves alternate, mostly narrowly elliptic, 36–60 mm long, 6–13 mm wide, glabrous; margin usually recurved,

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.

Wallflower or Finger Flower

Small open shrub to .3m in height. Indigenous to South Aust.,Vic. ,NSW and Qld

Hairpin Banksia

Flowers full of nectar are a favourite of birds and insects. A compact shrub to 2m. Leaves with short teeth at the end. Flower spikes up to to 15cm long.

Guinea Flower

Low woody shrub. Yellow flowers with five petals, each with a distinctive notch at the outer end. Leaves small and linear.

Verticordia polytricha - Northern cauliflower

A small compact bush with masses of small, white flowers. Growing in gravelly/sandy soil.

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).

Verticordia chrysantha

Shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Dec or Jan. Sandy gravelly soils, deep yellow sand. Undulating plains.

Typhonium lillifolium

Long slender, variegated leaves. Blossoms are up to about 25cm x 15cm, of a dark purple/reddish colour with a foul odour like rotten meat that attracts insects.

Granite Sun Orchid

Tall spikes about 40 - 50 cm tall.

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.

Thyme Leaf Spyridium

This small South Australian endemic shrub has furry branches with narrow leaves. The flowers are white velvety floral leaves surrounded by tiny yellow flowers.

Funnel Web orchid hybrid

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.