All Wildflowers

Waratah

The official floral emblem for the State of NSW. Shrubs with 1 or a few erect, slender, stems to 3m high, arising from a woody underground lignotuber. Stems often do not branch.

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.

Emu Bush

Upright tall shrub to 3m. Grows in Sandy or stony soils, alluvium. Colluvial & riverine flats, rocky hills.

Arrowsmith Orchid

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

Guinea Flower

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

Granite Sun Orchid

Tall spikes about 40 - 50 cm tall.

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.

Blue Beard Orchid

Sometimes called Blue Fairy Orchid Common species with long narrow blue leaf Grows 5 - 15cm First blue orchid to flower each season

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,

Donkey Orchid

Calytrix

A standout small shrub with heathlike foliage and conspicuous flowers. Flowers have 5 petals. The calyx remains on the plant long after the flowers have faded,

Kangaroo Thorn

Erect or spreading shrub 1–4 m high; bark finely fissured, brownish grey; branchlets ± terete with low ridges, ± hairy. Stipules spinescent, slender, mostly 5–15 mm long.

Yellow Microcybe

An uncommon dwarf shrub to 60cm high with scaly branches.

Keraudrenia velutina

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

Lesser Bottlebrush

One of only two 'true' bottlebrushes in WA. Tall to small tree or shrub, 1-6 m high. Fl. red, Sep to Dec or Jan. Sandy soils, laterite. Often along watercourses.

Buckthorn Family

Trees, shrubs, and lianas, or herbs (Crumenaria). ‘Normal’ plants, or switch-plants; often with the principal photosynthesizing function transferred to stems. Leaves well developed, or much reduced.

Broad Lipped Spider Orchid

Common Coastal Spider Orchid Grows 250 - 500mm Variably Red Cream, Green Yellow flowers. Found in isolated pockets in the south west.

Mountain Pea

Tentative Identification. Spindly, small branched shrub to 1.5 m with leaves 4-6cm long.

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.

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.

Scaevola, Fan Flower

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

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.

Trigger Plant

A small plant that packs a punch. The flowers of Trigger plants have a central touch-sensitive column tucked under the petals. The male and female parts of the flower (anther and stigma) are located