All Wildflowers

Purple Pansy Orchid

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.

Purple Beard Orchid

Leaf linear to lanceolate, to 30 cm long and 13 mm wide, dark green. Inflorescence to 46 cm high, 1–5-flowered. Sepals and lateral petals reddish brown with darker stripes. Labellum c. 15 mm long,

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,

Yellow Lechenaultia

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

Bush Tomato

Low soft shrub. Elongated, grey leaves.

Bush Tomato

Leucopogon

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

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Fl. pink & yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Couch honey-pot

It was known as a Dryandra until 2007, when all Dryandra species were transferred to the Genus Banksia. It is a prostrate shrub endemic to Western Australia.

Wild Tobacco or Rosetted Tobacco

Yellow Featherflower

Small shrub to 0.5m growing in sandy or gravelly soil. Abundant bright yellow flowers in spring, flowers darkening as they age. Each flower has feathery calyx lobes.

Moort

Although Moort grows into a small mallee-like tree, the ones that we have seen have been very low growing (in exposed conditions). The bark is smooth, and the leaves are rounded.

Winged Wattle

Shrub, 0.3-2.1 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow/pink, Apr to Dec. Variety of soils. Near water, rocky hills, breakaways, salt pans, clay flats.

Wild Tomato

Rounded shrub growing to about 1.5m tall. Prickles up to 1cm long on stems only. All parts covered with short dense hairs that can be silvery or rusty colour.

Tea Tree

Smelling sweet ,Tea Tree blossoms blowing like confetti in the wind line the roads of Flinders Island.

Swordfish Banksia

Densely branched, lignotuberous shrub, 1-4 m high. Flowers are yellow, and inflorescences hang down. Flowering is Jan to Mar or May. Yellow or brown sand, sometimes with lateritic gravel.

Synaphea spinulosa subsp spinulosa

Scruffy low growing bush with small yellow flower spikes. leaves tough and spikey. Growing gravelly sandy soil

Snow Myrtle

Open shrub up to 2m tall growing as an understorey in open forest and woodland.

Yam Daisy

Perennial herb to 40 cm high with fleshy tuberous roots. Leaves all basal, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4–30 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, apex acute, base tapered,

Yawning Leek Orchid.

Photo by Graeme W. An unusual one in that it should only flower after summer fire but there has been no fire where I found this. Prasophyllum hians, the Yawning Leek Orchid.

Smooth Fringe Myrtle

Small woody shrub to 1m tall with tiny, smooth leaves and is endemic to South Australia.

Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid Prasophyllum elatum. Found in isolated pockets of the south west , it only flowers after fire. This orchid can grow to 120cms tall.

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.