Marble Gum
Boab or Adansonia
Sturt's Desert pea
Gidgee or Stinking Wattle
Red Lechenaultia
native pea, orange
Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod
Rainbow sun dew
lichen
yellowdrumsticks
Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm
Sundew
Woollybutt eucalyptus
Flannel Flower
Dotted Sun Orchid
Kangaroo Paw - Yellow
kangaroo paw
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.
Erect, multi-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. white-other, Jul to Dec. Sand, gravel, laterite. Sandplains.
Grows to 100mm - 250mm in height Striking pink flowers
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).
Photo by Graeme W.
Common Banded Greenhood Flowers have fleshy appearance Broad flattened sepal Distinctive reddish hood
Erect annual, herb, 0.1-0.45 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Nov. Red sand, lateritic pebbly soils. Dunes, sandplains.
Small soft shrub growing in moist areas. Phyllodes about 10mm long with a distinct point. Bright yellow flowerheads.
Photo by Graeme W. One of the rarer orchids . This is the coastal spider orchid, Caladenia abbreviata. It flowers in November and is found in isolated pockets near Augusta.
Herbaceous perennial growing to about 20cm high. Distinctive yellow flowers, buds are pink.
Photo by Graeme W. The vivid white and red orchid is the exotic spider orchid caladenia nivalis, from the dunsborough area.
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,
Upright tall shrub to 3m. Large glossy leaves. Flowers narrow, with cinnamon and pinkish markings and subtended by pale pink bracts.
One of the listed rare species
Slender, erect shrub, 0.5-1.6 m high. Fl. red, Jun to Dec. Grey sand over laterite, lateritic loam. Hillslopes.
Straggly open shrub with large serrated, prickly leaves. Large flower heads about 7cm across.
A small terrestrial orchid, growing to about 25cm high. Petals and sepals are green with a maroon stripe. Labellum covered with maroon hairs.
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,
Shrub in drier forest. Leaf margins rolled under. Flowers thickly covered with rusty brown hairs.
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.
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,
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.
Photo by Graeme W. The Slipper orchid, Cryptostylis ovata found all over the southwest of WA especially near rivers and creeks.
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.
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