All Wildflowers

Wild Tobacco or Rosetted Tobacco

Emu Bush

Open woody shrub to about 2m tall. Leaves slightly furry, especially young leaves which have a golden appearance. Flowers pink and slightly hairy.

Silver Wattle

A very common wattle along the NSW tablelands. Ranges in size from a bushy shrub to a tall forest tree in wet forests. True leaves are green-grey.

Emu Bush

Small shrub. Large slightly fleshy leaves with entire margins. Red flowers slightly hairy.

Bird Orchid

This orchid which grows to about 25cm high. The flower has a distinctive shiny, patterned appearance. The colours on the single flower range from a network of green,

Emu Bush

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

Yellow Lechenaultia

Loose, sprawling, soft shrub to 2m. Growing in sand beside road. Flowers pink and creamy yellow.

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

Ouch Bush

One look at this most unusual pea plant will confirm that the common name is very appropriate - ouch indeed! The swollen succulent leaves are about 2.

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.

Karri Snail orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.08-0.29 m high. Fl. green, Jul to Nov. Sandy loam-clay, laterite clay over granite, shallow mossy soils. Winter damp flats, in forests, on rocks and around rock bases,

Olive Grevillia

Erect, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-4.5 m high. Fl. red/red-pink, Jun to Sep. White or grey sand. Coastal dunes, limestone rocks. Flowers can be either red or yellow; often on adjacent bushes.

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.

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,

Leucopogon

Straggly, prickly shrub with wiry branches. Narrow leaves ending in a sharppoint.

Banded Greenhood

Tuberous, perennial, herb, to 0.45 m high. Grows in white, grey or yellow sand, clay, laterite, limestone, granite. Flats, sand plains, slopes, ridges, crests of sand dunes, valley floors.

Siloxerus filifolius

Decumbent to erect annual, herb, 0.01-0.065 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan. Variety of soils. Moist situations.

Slender Smoke-bush

An erect shrub to 1.5m tall with narrow, upturned leaves. The flower are blue to whiteish in a dense spike.

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.

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Bacon and Eggs

Small woody shrub. Leaves flat, rounded with pointed tip.

Hakea denticulata

Compact rounded shrub, 1–2 m tall, 1–2 m wide. No lignotuber. Small branches and young leaves covered with short hairs. Leaves flat, elliptic or obovate, up to 4cm long, 10–25 mm wide,

Grevillea shuttleworthiana

This unusual little Grevillea grows as an open shrub in sandy heath. The blueish green leaves are round to oval in shape while the very small creamy-yellow flowers are arranged in quite dense

Hooded leaved Hakea (Scallops)

Shrubs, 1–4 m high. Leaves alternate. Grows amongst medium trees, or low trees (heathland); in gravelly soil. Cucullata (L.): cowled or hooded; referring to the leaves of this species.