All Wildflowers

Purple Pansy Orchid

One of our donkey orchids

Scarlet Bottle-brush

Scarlet Bottlebrush grows up to 4 metres in height and has stiff, sharply pointed leaves which are 3 to 5 cm long and 4 to 7 mm wide. The flower spikes are 5 to 8 cm in length and about 4 to 5 cm in

Mat Heath Mrytle

Thryptomene ericaea is unique to South Australia. It occurs on Kangaroo Island and, to a lesser extent, on lower Eyre Peninsular. Centenary Starburst is a striking,

Pea - Thinicola incana

Tall open shrub. Orange/red pea flowers and greyish furry leaves. Growing in deep red sand.

Scarlet Featherflower

Endemic to SW of WA. Sparsely branched shub to 2m. Small, sessile rounde leaves closely spaced along stems. The bright red flowers occur in the leaf axils toward the end of the stems.

Painted Lady

This slender little bush with small narrow leaves has some of the most striking flowers of the pea family. Flowers are pink/mauve with reddish tinges,

King in his Carriage Orchid

Grows to 100mm - 350mm in height

Red Parrot Pea

Erect shrub to 0.5 m high; stems pubescent. Leaves linear, usually 3–10 mm long, apex obtuse to acute and often recurved, smooth or rarely minutely tuberculate,

Riceflower

Small soft shrub with flower heads at the end of the branches. Small flowers with 4 petals. Leaves small, soft and arranged in opposing pairs along the stem.

Poverty Bush

Erect, open shrub, (0.5-)1-4(-5) m high. Fl. white/cream-yellow/red-pink-purple, Jun to Dec or Jan to Mar. Frequently on red or stony soils. Variety of habitats.

Riceflower

Small woody shrub with multiple slender stems arising at ground level, giving a rounded appearance. Grows to about 1m tall. Small oval leaves 1cm long densely packed in 4 rows along stems.

Sand Bottlebrush

Not your ordinary bottlebrush. Beaufortia squarrosa is a medium open shrub. Leaves are arranged with geometrical precision - small and rounded, crowded along the stem in alternating opposite pairs.

Pincushion Hakea

The flowers of this shrub or small tree open as a pale cream and later turn red. It can grow in gravel, clay and also sandy soils. The branches are slim and of a reddish brown colour.

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,

Native Liquorice

Erect subshrub to 1 m high, ± glabrous. Leaves 2–8 cm long; leaflets 9–13, linear to elliptic or obovate, 15–20 mm long; 2–8 mm wide, apex shortly mucronate, margins with minute, curved hairs,

Riceflower

Small soft shrub to about 70cm. Smooth oval leaves in opposite pairs along stems. Small four petaled yellow flowers in heads at the end of branches.

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.

Fuschia bush

Upright shrub up to 2m, with glossy leaves. Flowers have a spotted throat and are attractive to birds. Flower colour may vary considerably through shades of red, mauve and yellow.

Giant Donkey Orchid

Cowslip Orchid Hybrid

Very common throughout WA. This is a hybrid type. Grows in dense colonies and is a hybrid between cowslip (C flava) and pink fairies (C. latifolia).

Victorian Smokebush

WA is not the only state to have smokbush. This one is found in the south east of the country. It grows to one or 2 metres tall, and has long thin leaves up to 20cm long.

Common spider orchid

The common white spider orchid, is probably the most misidentified orchid in WA. While common, it has different forms in different areas making for a difficult identification.

Sugar Orchid

Grows 50 - 150mm in height Single Hairy leaf Single small sugary white flower. Although a delicate looking plant, it is a hardy inland species ocurring 50 km or more from the coast,

Petrophile sp.

Open shrub with cream flower spikes. Leaves tough with sharp points.