All Wildflowers

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.

Creamy Candles

Glabrous perennial, with spikes of creamy-white flowers on erect stems. Grows to 35cm tall with a tufted habit.

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.

Teasel banksia

Small spreading shrub up to about 1m high. Leaves narrow, linear 12-15mm long, with margins rolled under. Attractive small flower spikes, usually at the end of branches,

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.

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.

Straggly Corkbark

Grows as scattered trees on sandy red loam. Small gnarled tree up to 6m tall with thick furrowed corky bark. Leaves divided into sharp pointed lobes, about 10cm long. Sprays of flowers 12cm long,

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.

Emu Bush

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

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.

Nodding greenhood Orchid

Arrowsmith Orchid

Greenish-yellow and brownish-red flowers. Grows between 250mm-500mm in height

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

Boronia

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

Barrens Regelia

A large shrub to about 3 metres with attractive, greyish green, velvety leaves to about 13mm long. The large clusters of brilliant red/orange flowers (occasionally yellow) open in spring and are well

Scaevola, Fan Flower

A perennial, herb,growing to about 50cm high. Stiff erect form with leaves much reduced in size.

Bird orchid

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

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.

Polygala orbicularis

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

Nodding Banksia

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1.3 m high. Fl. pink-purple/purple-brown, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White or grey sand, gravel. Depressions, coastal consolidated dunes.

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.

Bossiaea walkeri -Cactus Bossiaea

Rigid, much-branched shrub to 2 m high, ± glabrous; stems and branches flat and winged, 3–7 mm wide, often with a white, waxy surface. Leaves reduced to scales c. 2 mm long.

Showy Copper-wire Daisy

An attractive daisy with large bright flowerheads. Sparsely woolly to almost smooth perennial to 70 cm high with several stems. Basal leaves to 20 cm long; leaves on stem narrow, spear shaped,

Pimelea aeruginosa

Erect, spindly shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow, mainly May to Oct. Yellow sand or sandy clay, often with gravel or overlying laterite. Plains.