All Wildflowers

Flying Duck Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Round-fruit Banksia

Low shrub to 1.5m. Leaves narrow, edges rolled under, about 3cm long. Flower spikes change colour as flowers mature - from pale green/yellow, to mauve and purple to brown.

Swamp Bee Orchid

Late flowering Bee orchid Grows 200 - 400mm Small Yellow Brown marked flowers

Mountain Bells

Endemic to SW WA. Small open, erect shrub to about 1m tall. Leaves are small, narrow and heath-like. Flowers a brilliant red-pink, 3-4cm long, pendant, bell shaped.

Northern Bee Orchid

Grows up to 200-400mm in height. Two to six basal leaves Up to five pale yellow brown marked flowers

Mt Finke Grevillea

Grevillea treueriana, also known known as Mount Finke grevillea, is a shrub that is endemic to Mount Finke in South Australia. It is listed as vulnerable under the EPBC Act.

Native Willow, Greenbush

Native Willow is a medium sized open shrub growing to about 4 metres high. The leaves are about 5cm long, covered with soft white hairs. Buds and seedpods are also hairy.

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.

Crimson Turkey Bush

Shrub, (0.3-)0.8-3 m high. Fl. red-pink-blue-cream, Apr to Oct. Stony red clay, loam or sandy soils over sandstone, granite, ironstone. Gibber plains, rocky ridges & hillslopes, creeklines.

Common Smokebush

Erect, multi-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. white-other, Jul to Dec. Sand, gravel, laterite. Sandplains.

Zebra Orchid

A small ground orchid growing to about 20cm tall. The flower is small with a distinctive striped labellum that also has a mass of dark calli. Petals and dorsal sepals turn downwards.

Common mignonette orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Rattle Beaks

Grows in colonies Single long narrow leathery leaf Prominent hood like dorsal sepal

Reaching Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Reaching Spider Orchid, Caladenia arrecta quite unique in the SW area of WA as it exists in a tiny area of maybe 10 plants,

Helmet Orchid

Photo by Graeme W

Prickly Heath

Straggling stalks covered with long flat leaves that end in a sharp point. Small creamy white flowers in leaf axils. Damp areas near watercourse.

Heberle's spider orchid

Tuberous, perennial herb, 0.2-0.45 m high. Flowers Sept. to Oct. Grows in Sand, clayey loam and gravel.

Hare Orchid

Early flowering species Grows 100-250mm One or two oblong, green purple striped leaves

Pink Finger

Leaf narrow-linear, to 15 cm long and 4 mm wide, and sparsely hairy. Inflorescence to 24 cm high, 1–3-flowered. Flowers often sweet to musky scented. Sepals and lateral petals usually 0.8–1.

Woollybush

Woollybush grows as an upright, spreading shrub, but can be a small tree up to 5 m tall. It has erect branches that are covered in short hairs when young. Leaves may be up to 4cm long,

Wedge-leaved Dryandra

This shrub grows up to 1.5m tall and has creamy flowers that are up to 4cm across. It range is from Albany to Esperance and Northward to the Stirling's and Lake Grace.

Caladenia hybrid Spider Orchid

Slipper orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Slipper orchid, Cryptostylis ovata found all over the southwest of WA especially near rivers and creeks.

Red Mallee

Mallee, to 5 m high, bark rough on trunk, smooth above. Fl. yellow/cream, Jul. Red-grey loam, limestone. Calcareous flats, stony screes.