All Wildflowers

Variable Prickly Grevillea

Prickly shrub with holly-like leaves that are whitish on the underside. Grows mostly in heathlands.

Velvet Wattle, Wyberba Wattle

A rare wattle is this small erect or spreading tree or shrub. It grows to to about 8 m high and has fissured, dark grey bark. Phyllodes are silvery grey-green and tapering at either end,

Verticordia acerosa

Open shrub, 0.2-1(-1.7) m high. Fl. yellow/orange-red-brown, Aug to Nov. White or yellow sand, sandy gravel, stony loam, laterite. Granite outcrops, hills, sandplains, clay flats, damp depressions.

Verticordia chrysantha

Shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Dec or Jan. Sandy gravelly soils, deep yellow sand. Undulating plains.

Verticordia pennigera

Erect or prostrate shrub, 0.2 to 0.6 m high. Fl. pink, Jan or Mar to Apr or Jul or Sep to Dec. Sandy or clay, often gravelly soils. Often associated with granitic rocks.

Verticordia polytricha - Northern cauliflower

A small compact bush with masses of small, white flowers. Growing in gravelly/sandy soil.

Victorian Smokebush

WA is not the only state to have smokbush. This one is found in the south east of the country. It grows to one or 2 metres tall, and has long thin leaves up to 20cm long.

Waddy Wood

To 10m high with wispy to dense pendulous branches resembling casuarinas. Young trees have stiff foliage with sharp points, probably as a defence against browsers.

Waddywood

Acacia peuce is only found in 3 locations, all within the arid zone of the Simpson and Strzelecki desert. Mature trees slowly reach a height of about 10-15m. They have long narrow,

Wallflower or Finger Flower

Small open shrub to .3m in height. Indigenous to South Aust.,Vic. ,NSW and Qld

Waratah

Blue Mountains region

Waratah

The official floral emblem for the State of NSW. Shrubs with 1 or a few erect, slender, stems to 3m high, arising from a woody underground lignotuber. Stems often do not branch.

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Wax Lip Orchid

Small ground orchid, usually one or two flowers on a slender stalk. Common in forested areas on well drained soil.

Wedding Bush

Brilliant white flowers about 2cm across cover this coastal shrub in spring. Wedding Bush grows in deep sand close to the coast where it can tolerate strong salt and sand laden winds.

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.

Weeping Gum, Weeping Mallee

A slender gum with minimal foliage and a strongly weeping habit. Grows on rocky exposed slopes in the Fitzgerald River NP. Flowers are small, fruits large, urn shaped. Bark smooth.

Weir Vine

Climber, to 6 m high. Fl. purple-blue-pink, Jan to Jun. Red sandy & clayey soils, pebbly loam. Undulating plains, dunes, hardpans.

Wells' Dampiera

Tufted perennial, herb, 0.05-0.25(-0.4) m high, leaves glabrous. Fl. blue, Aug to Dec or Jan. Sandy & clayey soils, gravel, laterite. Undulating plains

Western coolibah

Evergreen tree 6–20 m high, usually crooked or irregular, 30–100 cm in diameter. Bark gray or brackish, thick, fibrous, rough, not shedding. Leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate, 6–20 cm long,

Whirrakee Wattle (Acacia williamsonii)

Very decorative shrub with a neat rounded or obconic shape and a profusion of bright golden inflorescences in the upper axils.

White Fairy

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,

White Spider Orchid

An undescribed subspecies of Caladenia longicauda.