All Wildflowers

Pink Enamel Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Pink enamel orchid Elythranthera emarginata is much bigger than the purple Enamel Orchid and there is also a named hybrid.

Polygala orbicularis

Annual, herb, 0.04-0.2 m high. Fl. blue-white, Apr to May. Clayey sand. Pool edges, swamps, sandstone outcrops.

Adenanthos venosus

A straggling low shrub. Leaves are broadly oval ending in a point with numerous longitudinal veins. Small dusky red flowers are slightly furry.

Plumed Featherflower

Shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high. Fl. pink-blue-purple-red-white, Jul to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sandy or clayey soils, gravel, granite. Seasonally wet situations, rock outcrops, undulating plains, hills,

Running Postman

Prostrate or twining herb; stems ± whitish pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ± circular, rarely broad-obovate, mostly 0.6–2.4 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, margins undulate,

Funnel Web orchid hybrid

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.

Holly-leaf Grevillea

Spreading to prostrate shrub, 0.3–2 m high. Leaves 3–9 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, divided or rarely some entire, usually with 3–7 triangular to ovate teeth or lobes 0.5–5 cm long, 4–8 mm wide,

Erect yellow heads

Annual herb, stems erect, 5–30 cm long, nearly glabrous to cottony. Leaves lanceolate to linear, 4–34 mm long, c. 0.5–4 mm wide, midrib ± prominent on lower surface, glabrous to cottony,

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.

Bird orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Unidentified bird orchid, Pterostylis sp.

Grevillea quercifolia

Straggly to sprawling shrub, 0.3-0.7 m high. Fl. pink/red/purple, Jul to Dec. Sand, loam, often with gravel, laterite

Crowea angustifolia

Diffuse shrub, 0.3-2 m high, leaves linear to narrow-oblong. Fl. pink/white, Sep to Oct. Sandy clay, gravel. Ridge tops & slopes.

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

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).

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].

Black-eyed Susan

Small straggling shrub with small heath-like leaves. Bright mauve-purple flowers in spring that tend to hang down obscuring the distinctive black centre.

Granite Sun Orchid

Tall spikes about 40 - 50 cm tall.

Daisybush

A dense woody shrub growing to about 1m high. small rectangular shaped leaves covered with hairs giving a greyish appearance. Flowerheads about 2cm across.

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,

Desert Fuschia

Prostrate, spreading or erect shrub, 0.1-1.2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Mar to Nov. Red-brown sand, clay or loam soils, laterite. Stony flats, low rises, flat plains, granite outcrops.

Glossodia spp or Cockatoo or waxlip orchid

Single stem, single leaf at ground level. 10 to 12 cm high Found in all states except WA and NT

Boronia

Soft shrub to about 1m. Mauve/pink 4-petalled flowers in spring.