All Wildflowers

Joseph Spider Orchid

Bull Banksia

Tree or shrub (in south coastal areas), 1.5-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan. White or grey sand, laterite.

Old Man's Beard

Dioecious, woody climber, to 5 m high. Leaves mostly biternate with 9 leaflets; leaflets lanceolate-oblong to broad-ovate, 0.8–6 cm long, 0.3–1.2 cm wide,

Cajeput Tree, Paperbark

A familiar sight along watercourses and in swamps across northern Australia. A medium sized tree with bright silvery green foligae and a slightly weeping habit.

Funnelweb Spider Orchid

another distinct spider orchid

Funnel Web orchid hybrid

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.

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.

Cauliflower Hakea

Dense prickly foliage and flowers packed tight as in a cauliflower marks this unusual Hakea. Its not the most attractive Hakea, but one of the more distinctive ones. It grows to about one metre high.

Petrophile sp.

Open shrub with cream flower spikes. Leaves tough with sharp points.

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Leafless Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Pop flower - Glischrocaryon flavescens

Low growing plant with narrow leaves and clusters of cream flowers. About 50cm high. Growing in sandy/gravelly soil in Kalbarri National Park, W.A.

Woolly Head Mat Rush

Grass like perennial forb 20-80cm tall. Leaves basal, with a sheath at the base, 20-80cm long, 1.5-5mm wide, flat. Male and female flowers on different plants. Fragrant flowers.

Drooping Velvet Bush

Lasiopetalum schulzenii, commonly known as drooping velvet bush, is a common shrub of the mallow family. It was first described in the genus Corethrostylis by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in a

Coastal Spider Orchid

Late flowering Spider Orchid Grows to 200 - 300mm Spreading Petals and lateral sepals Declared Priority Flora in WA Coastal Habitation

Silver Box

A small tree with rough box-type bark. Adult leaves retain their juvenile form, they are large about 15x8cm, waxy-grey (glaucous) and the same colour on both sides, opposite and sessile.

Siloxerus filifolius

Decumbent to erect annual, herb, 0.01-0.065 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan. Variety of soils. Moist situations.

Woolly Mat-rush

Perennial tussock, small to robust; rhizomes ascending. Leaves flat, rigid, coarsely veined, 20–60 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide; apex acute to rounded; sheath margins white or orange-brown.

Shrubby Velvet-Bush

Wiry shrub to 2.5m tall. Stems and new shoots covered with rusty red hairs. Flowers are crowded in clusters. Calyx lobes are speckled outside with star shaped (stellate) hairs, smooth and pale inside.

Darling Lily

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

Woolly Rice-flower

Shrub 0.4–1 m high. Young stems densely hairy. Leaves alternate or sometimes subopposite, shortly petiolate, ±narrowly elliptic, with long white hairs on both surfaces when young, concolorous,

Curly Mallee, Arkaroola Mallee

Mallee to 5m, somewhat tumbledown habit. Bark rough on lower branches, smooth above. Leaves grey-green, broad and sessile (without a leaf stalk) and arranged in opposite pairs. Buds with conical cap,

Scaly Phebalium

Shrub to 2m tall, sometimes compact. Small brownish scales cover stems and underside of leaves. Leaves narrow, up to 5cm long. Flowers with 5 petals and 10 long erect stamens,