All Wildflowers

Petrophile striata

Erect rigid or sprawling shrub, 0.2-1(-2) m high. Fl. yellow-cream-white, Aug to Dec. Gravelly sandy soils, laterite, granitic soils, clay. Coastal plains, sandplains.

Red beaks

Common Beak Orchid Grows 50 - 300mm Dark green red blotched basal leaf Red and White flowers A common orchid in the south west but only flowers after fire.

Plain Sun Orchid

Terrestrial herb. Leaf linear to lanceolate, 10–30 cm long, 6–20 mm wide, ribbed, erect to lax, dark green to glaucous. Inflorescence to 60 cm high, 2–20-flowered. Flowers sweetly fragrant.

Macarthuria australis

Erect or ascending, spreading, wiry shrub, 0.15-0.75 m high. Fl. white/white-cream, May to Dec or Jan to Feb (mainly Aug-Sep). Sand or laterite. Coastal sandplains, sandhills, roadsides.

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.

Knife-leaf wattle - Acacia cultriformis

A wiry erect shrub that grows to a rounded shrub about 4m. Has grey triangular shaped phyllodes. Bears large golden ball shaped flowers in spring.

Donkey Orchid

Kick Bush

Usually prostrate or sometimes diffuse to erect shrub, 0.05-0.3(-0.4) m high. Fl. yellow/cream, Jan to Dec. Yellow/grey sand, red/brown laterite gravel, brown clay to sandy clay, ironstone, limestone.

Keraudrenia velutina

Shrub, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Feb to Dec. Variety of soils.

Wild Tobacco

We found this Nicotiana growing inside a small cave - almost a cave dwelling plant. It favours growing in rocky places like rocky hills, cliffs & outcrops.

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

Kangaroo Island Riceflower

Shrub usually 0.7–1.5 m high. Stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic, glabrous, bluish green on adaxial surface, paler abaxially; lamina 12–33 mm long,

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.

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.

Cottonheads

Small tufted perennial with pointed grass-like leaves. About 25cm tall. Common growing in sand among heath.

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.

Common Clematis

A strongly growing vine that climbs over other shrubs and intertwines with other vines. Climbing is done by the twining leaf stalks. Leaves are compound, made up of 3 oval shaped leaflets.

Cow Kicks

Trigger Plants

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

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.

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.

Silky Oak

A fast-growing, single-stemmed tree usually 20-30 m in height and about 80 cm in diameter but sometimes larger. The dark grey bark is furrowed in a lace-like pattern. Young branchlets are angular,

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,

Wax Lip Orchid

Small ground orchid, usually one or two flowers on a slender stalk. Common in forested areas on well drained soil.