All Wildflowers

Bladder Saltbush

Taste the salt. Saltbush copes with salty soil by pumping the salt out onto its leaves. This one is a small shrub to about 1 metre high. Leaves 5-25mm long, 3-15mm wide, flat, oval shaped,

Donkey Orchid

Grass Leaf Hakea

Brilliant pink flowerheads stand out on this upright shrub or small tree that grows to 4 or 5 meters high. Leaves are long, without a sharp point and with a number of prominent veins,

Caladenia - Yellow Spider Orchid

The orchid normally has rich yellow petals some times white to pale yellow are seen. The labellum is white with pale red markings. A version with red petals can be found.

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,

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,

Cushion Fanflower

Scaevola crassifolia is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae, native to Western Australia and South Australia. Common names include Cushion Fanflower, Thick-leaved Fanflower and Thick-leaved Scaevola.

Calochilus stramenicola Wandoo Beard Orchid

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

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.

Bancroft Wattle

Strangely shaped large phyllodes up to about 20cm long are a distinctive feature of this wattle from SE Qld. Each phyllode is a stem modified to carry out photosynthesis ,

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.

Darling Lily

Clump-forming herb, lacking a pseudostem. Leaves several, basal, ± spreading, broad-linear, 30–80 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, margins ± rough.

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.

King in his Carriage orchid

King in his Carriage Drakaea glyptodon, southwest area

Nardoo

Burke and Wills tried to live on Nardoo when they returned to the Dig Tree. Unfortunately they didn't know how to prepare it so that it was nutritious.

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.

Dead Man's Foot or Horse Dung Fungus

Not pretty; but as its common along roads and tracks its worth including. Its a very common yellow-brown puff-ball fungus, that grows in a mycorrhizal relationship with at least Eucalyptus species.

Hemigenia

A compact shrub bearing purple flowers.

White Goodenia

A low, spreading herb to 25cm high with bright blue green leaves. Flowers are white with a touch of brown. Grows in grasslands and woodlands, and is widespread although not common in the Mid North,

Red Toothbrushes

This aptly named Grevillea is a large bushy shrub commonly between 3-4 metres in height. The slender upright foliage is a silvery green to 15 cm in length and may be undivided or dissected.

Digger's Speedwell, Blue Veronica

This unusual low shrub can be found in the understorey between about 700 to 1200m where it often masquerades as a small eucalypt. Its blue-grey, rounded leaves are in pairs,

Cut-leaf Goodenia

Decumbent to ascending herb to 40 cm high, with crisped simple hairs or glabrous.Basal leaves oblong to oblanceolate, mostly 5–8 cm long, 3–20 mm wide,

Isotoma petraea - Rock Isomome

Erect, spreading annual or perennial, herb, (0.1-)0.2-0.6(-1) m high. Fl. blue/blue-purple, Feb to Nov. Shallow soils over granite. Amongst rocks, breakaways, in rock crevices, rocky outcrops.

Kimberley Rose