All Wildflowers

Fleshy Groundsel or Annual Yellowtop

Erect, fleshy annual, herb, to 1 m high. Fl. yellow, May to Oct. Red or brown or white-grey clay, red sands or loams, laterite, sandstone. Flats, dunes, depressions, saline sites, clay pans,

Flat Topped Yate

A graceful small to medium sized tree,growing to about 15m tall. Bark is rough, fibrous and flaky on trunk. Leaves elongated and form a typically umbrella shaped flat crown to the tree.

Hakea microcarpa

A shrub with cylindrical, sharp pointed leaves up to about 6cm long. The seed follicle is smooth, slender, dark coloured and usually less than 2cm long. Common on stony slopes in the mountains.

Tates Grass Tree - SA Endemic

Woody stemmed perennial with a crown of flat, narrow leaves. The trunk is usually over 1m tall, and flowering is stimulated by fire. This species is endemic to South Australia and is restricted to

Grass Tree

The form of the plant resembles a tree, with very long and bunched, grass-like, leaves that emerge from a central base. The trunk may grow over 3 metres tall,

Bloodwood

Small tree with rough scaly tessellated bark over the trunk and branches. Leaves are the same colour on both faces with no intramarginal vein. Buds are arranged in dense terminal panicles.

Early Nancy

Early Nancy announces that spring has arrived on the NSW southern tablelands. A perennial forb to 30cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stem, sometimes the lower two at the base of the plant,

Kangaroo Island Cone sticks - KI Endemic

Densely branched shrub to 60 cm tall. Branchlets densely grey-puberulent. Leaves 4–8 cm long overall; petiole 2–5 cm long; lamina divaricate, terete, rigid,

Tallerack

Common. A small gum with distinctive waxy-white (glaucous) foliage and gumnuts (fruit). Grows to about 4m tall. Branches and fruits have 4 angular ribs running longitudinally. Gumnuts 1cm long.

Murchison Rose

Shrub to 1.5m. Leaves rounded and covered with short felted hairs giving the leaves a furry grey appearance. Stems and younger leaves covered with light brown hairs.

Cut-leaf Banksia

One of many striking features of this dense shrub is the leaf shape that gives rise to the common name of Cut-leaf Banksia. The Latin name praemorsa means "bitten off" referring to the sharply cut

Dancing Spider Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.09-0.45 m high, horizontally arranged flowers. Grows in grey, brown or black sand, granitic loam. Sandy Banksia woodland, mallee woodland on margins of salt lakes.

Fringed Daisy Bush - Kangaroo Island Endemic

Dwarf undershrub to 25cm high, with rough hairy stems and tightly compacted, tiny leaves.

Wild Parsley, wild parsnip

A splash of colour in the desert - erect annual herb to 60 cm high, sometimes with a perennial rootstock; smooth stems sparingly branched. Leaves mostly towards the base of the plant,

Dryander's grevillea

Spreading to erect shrub, (0.3-)0.6-2 m high. Fl. white/red/red-purple/orange-red, Jan to May. Sandstone. Rocky hillsides or ridges.

Silver Snow Daisy

An attractive perennial herb that can put on a lovely summer display in alpine meadows and among high altitude woodland. Leaves are elongated and form a dense basal rosette.

EANARTHRIACEA - Stored under name

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), K001056266 CollectionHerbarium Specimens

Firewood Banksia

Small gnarled tree to about 6m. Leaves up to 20cm long, toothed. Large flowerhead up to 15cm long and 8-10cm in diameter. Infloresence is a deep pink before flowers open when they are orange.

Yacca

Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata is endemic to South Australia and occurs from St Vincent Gulf to the northern Mt Lofty Ranges. It is found on ridge tops,

One sided bottlebrush

Calochilus stramenicola Wandoo Beard Orchid

Found between Clackline and Dryandra. Grows 20 - 40cm, 2-4 flowers. Prefers swampy ground

Gymea, Flame, Spear or Illawarra Lily

A giant perennial lily with a basal clump of large sword-shaped leaves over 1m long . In spring and summer large flowerheads up to 30cm across form at the end of thick stems that are up to 6m tall.

Donkey Orchid