All Wildflowers

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.

Slipper orchid

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

Rattle Beaks

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

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.

Slender Onion Orchid

You could easily mistake this common little orchid for grass. A small terrestrial orchid with 10s of tiny flowers crowded along a flowering spike that can grow up tp to 30cm tall.

Northern Bee Orchid

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

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.

Little Woollybush

Erect,compact shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. red/pink, Feb or May to Dec. White, grey or yellow sand, sandy clay, gravel. Among low scrub.

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.

Rhodanthe citrina

Erect annual, herb, 0.05-0.3(-0.5) m high.

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.

Soft Billybuttons

Ascending or erect herb with many stems to 40 cm high. Cauline leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 3–7 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, apex broad-acute, gland-tipped; lamina concolorous, olive-brown to green,

Pink Fairy Orchid

Grows to 100mm - 250mm in height Striking pink flowers

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,

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.

Pink Enamel Orchid

Dragon Orchid

A small terrestrial orchid, growing to about 25cm high. Petals and sepals are green with a maroon stripe. Labellum covered with maroon hairs.

Drumsticks

Straggly open shrub with large serrated, prickly leaves. Large flower heads about 7cm across.

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.

Templetonia

Dense shrub to 2m. tall, much branched. Leaves oval, widest at the end away from the stem. Large dusky red pea flowers (3cm long) in which the standard petal is reflexed (bent backwards).

Silver Bush

Prostrate to erect shrub, usually under 2m in hight with soft silvery foliage, flowering all year, more common between April and October and is Endemic to Kangaroo Island

Eremophila punctata

Erect, viscid shrub, (0.25-)0.5-1.5(-2) m high. Fl. blue-purple-violet/white, Jul to Oct. Skeletal soils, often stony over laterite, red sand. Undulating plains, rocky situations, breakaways,

Slipper Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.25-0.7 m high. Fl. green & red, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White-grey sand, loam, granite. Sand dunes, outcrops, swamps.

Torrington Wattle

Small soft shrub growing in moist areas. Phyllodes about 10mm long with a distinct point. Bright yellow flowerheads.