All Wildflowers

Ikulyukulyu or upside-down plant

Unique desert species that has the flowers growing at the bottom of the plant.

Snowy River Wattle

A small suckering shrub to about 3m tall that can form thickets. Smaller spherical lemon yellow flowerheads are clustered at the ends of branches. Phyllodes are narrow and blue-green.

Mulla Mulla

Mistletoe

Mistletoes are parasites on trees and shrubs. They use the host plant to provide water and some sugars which are accessed via a specialised structure (haustoria) that penetrates the stem of the host.

Goodenia stobbsiana

Prostrate or erect, much-branched, viscid shrub, 0.4-1 m high. Fl. blue, Mar to Oct. Stony soils.

Desert Banksia

Medium size rounded shrub to 2m tall. Leaves wedge shaped, wider towards the tip, with sharply serrated edges. Flower spikes up to 10cm long. Flowers grey-gren in the bud stage,

Blue-spike Milkwort

Comesperma is a genus of shrubs, herbs and lianas in the family Polygalaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia. It was defined by the French botanist Jacques Labillardière in his 1806 work Novae

Boobialla

Glabrous shrub or small tree to 13 m high with coarsely fissured bark, branches smooth or rarely obscurely or prominently tuberculate. Leaves elliptic, usually 5–14 cm long and 7–28 mm wide,

Boranup Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One of the rare Caladenias only discovered in 2006 by Greg Bussell. Greg is perhaps the foremost expert on orchids in the lower and south west areas .

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.

Tennis Ball Banksia

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-3.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sand, clay loam, gravel, spongolite, laterite. Hills, top of breakaways.

Bristly Guinea Flower

Small erect or diffuse shrub to 40 cm high; branches glabrous except for pubescent new growth. Leaves clustered, narrow-linear, 4–6 mm long, to 0.5 mm wide, margins incurved,

Coast Velvetbush

A medium to tall shrub. Leaves: The leathery leaves are between 2-8 cm long and 0.5-1 cm wide. The leaf margins are wavy and curve back towards the underside of the leaf.

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.

Yellow Lantern Banksia or Lemann's Banksia

Most Banksias have flower heads that grow upwards. This one and a few others are unusual in that the flower heads hang down. Grows as an open shrub or a small tree to 5 m in height,

Coast Swainson-pea

Swainsona lessertiifolia, commonly known as the Coast Swainson-pea, is a sprawling, largely coastal, perennial herb in the pea family that is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

Eremaea beaufortioides

Spreading shrub, 0.3-2.5 m high with small ovate shaped leaves crowded along the stems. Flowers are orange, approx 15mm across and are at the end of the stems.

Calytrix

Small bush, about 60cm high. Both colours of flowers originate from same stem - they are parts of the same flower.

Tinsel-flower

Viscid shrub, (0.3-)0.5-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Jul to Nov. Sand, gravel, laterite.

Trianthema pilosa

A creeping annual herb commonly found partially covered with sand on the top of sand dunes. Flowers have 5 petals and are pinish-white. leaves covered with long hairs.

Carbunup King Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Carbunup King Spider Orchid , Caladenia procera, a quite rare orchid found in a small area of the Dunsborough area

Blue Grass-lily

Tufted, glabrous herbaceous perennial; rhizome simple; roots fibrous, most with fusiform tubers 1–4 cm long towards tips. Leaves 8–50 cm long, 1.5–15 mm wide; sheath ± papery.

Common Firebush

Shrub to 1 m high, rusty-tomentose. Leaves mostly oblong and 1–3 cm long, rarely lanceolate and to 5 cm long, 6–11 mm wide, margins entire or almost so; upper surface glabrous to finely pubescent

Bonamia erecta

Shrub, to 0.4 m high. Stems, leaves and buds covered with short golden/brown hairs. Flowers white-cream, Jul. Red sand.