All Wildflowers

Golden Everlasting, Strawflower

Low growing plant with slightly hairy, sticky leaves.

Fuchsia Grevillea

Spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2m-1 m high. Fl. orange-red, Mar or May to Dec or Jan. Granitic soils, sand, loamy clay, lateritic soils. Granite outcrops, hills, sometimes winter-wet flats.

Tiger Orchid

medium sized orchid growing in coastal heathland in Bridport, Tasmania.

Swainsona beasleyana

Procumbent perennial, herb, to 0.2 m high. Flowers purple-blue-pink, Aug to Sep. Red sandy or gravelly loam soils.

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.

Barrens Regelia

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.

Bush Tomato

Dense low shrub to 50cm high. Leaves deeply lobed, prickly.

Caladenia denticulata subsp. red flowering

This orchid has the same characteristics as the Yellow spider orchid except that the petals are red in colour.

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.

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Coppercups

A low sprawling shrub to 1.5m tall. Leaves small. Each of the 5 petals edged with a fringe of hairs. Flowers about 2cm across.

Custard Orchid

A yellow sun orchid

Dense Mignonette Orchid

Widespread in Lower South West of WA. Grows 20-50cm Can have up to 150 flowers in the cone shaped flower spike

Dunsborough Donkey Orchid

Grows to 150mm - 550mm in height. Narrow coastal distribution.

Emu Bush

Woody shrub to 1.5m tall. Leaves closely spaced on stem, almost as wide as long, with a distinct midrib. Flowers mauve/purple and subtended by large pink/purple bracts.

Emu Bush

Low woody shrub. Red flowers. Leaves narrow with a notches appearance to the edges.

Five Veined Grevillea

Erect dense shrub 1–1.5 m tall. Branchlets angular and ridged, sericeous to tomentose. Leaves sublinear to oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6 cm long, 1.

Synaphea spinulosa subsp spinulosa

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

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.

Flame Grevillea

A striking small tree, especially when covered with big, brilliant orange flowerheads. Grows to about 5m tall with long thin leaves that are divided into a couple of lobes.

Fringed Leek Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Fringed Leek Orchid, Prasophyllum fimbria which can be common in the general southwest of WA area but usually only flowers after fire.