All Wildflowers

Wax Lip Orchid

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

Donkey Orchid

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.

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.

Common Epacris

Erect open shrub with small triangular shaped and pointed leaves. White str shaped flowers.

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.

Western coolibah

Evergreen tree 6–20 m high, usually crooked or irregular, 30–100 cm in diameter. Bark gray or brackish, thick, fibrous, rough, not shedding. Leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate, 6–20 cm long,

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.

Stiff Westringia

Low spreading, straggly or erect, pungent shrub, (0.05-)0.15-1(-1.5) m high. Fl. white, Apr to Nov. Variety of soils, frequently in sandy soils over limestone.

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

Southern Blechnum Banksia

The Southern Blechnum Banksia is a prostrate spreading shrub with horizontal stems and fern-like leathery leaves that give the plant its specific name.

Spiked Sourbush

Shrub 1–2 m tall; branches erect. Stems finely striate, terete; flowering branchlets 1.5–2.5 mm diam., the internodes short. Leaves triangular, alternate, appressed, 1.5–2.5 mm long; apex weak, dry,

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

Mountain Pea

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

Bird orchid

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

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.

Slender Banksia

Lignotuberous tree or shrub, 0.4-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan to Feb. White, yellow, brown or pale red sand, sometimes over laterite. Sand dunes, sandplains.

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.

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.

Mint Bush

Shrub with minty aromatic leaves. Grows in sheltered places near rocks or streams.

Keraudrenia velutina

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

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.

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.

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.