All Wildflowers

Couch honey-pot

It was known as a Dryandra until 2007, when all Dryandra species were transferred to the Genus Banksia. It is a prostrate shrub endemic to Western Australia.

Coppercups

A low sprawling shrub to 1.5m tall. Leaves small. Each of the 5 petals edged with a fringe of hairs. Flowers about 2cm across.

Yellow Lechenaultia

Loose, sprawling, soft shrub to 2m. Growing in sand beside road. Flowers pink and creamy yellow.

Bush Tomato

Wickhams Grevillea

Large shrub up to 5m high. Grey-green leaves up to 8cm long, with several sharp teeth or spines. Widespread over large parts of northern Australia.

Custard Orchid

A yellow sun orchid

Sand Bottlebrush

Not your ordinary bottlebrush. Beaufortia squarrosa is a medium open shrub. Leaves are arranged with geometrical precision - small and rounded, crowded along the stem in alternating opposite pairs.

Dense Clawflower

Yellow Featherflower

Small shrub to 0.5m growing in sandy or gravelly soil. Abundant bright yellow flowers in spring, flowers darkening as they age. Each flower has feathery calyx lobes.

Bush Tomato

Low soft shrub. Elongated, grey leaves.

Dampiera

Low growing spreading soft shrub to 30cm. Small leaves covered with a felt of white hairs.

Scarlet Featherflower

Endemic to SW of WA. Sparsely branched shub to 2m. Small, sessile rounde leaves closely spaced along stems. The bright red flowers occur in the leaf axils toward the end of the stems.

Yam Daisy

Perennial herb to 40 cm high with fleshy tuberous roots. Leaves all basal, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4–30 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, apex acute, base tapered,

Isopogon latifolius

Rounded shrub to 1.5m. Broad leathery leaves about 7cm long, pale blue-green. Conspicuous mauve-pink flower heads.

Daisybush

Variable shrub up to 1.5m. Leaves small and rounded.

Leucopogon

Straggly, prickly shrub with wiry branches. Narrow leaves ending in a sharppoint.

Riceflower

Small soft shrub to about 70cm. Smooth oval leaves in opposite pairs along stems. Small four petaled yellow flowers in heads at the end of branches.

Mat Heath Mrytle

Thryptomene ericaea is unique to South Australia. It occurs on Kangaroo Island and, to a lesser extent, on lower Eyre Peninsular. Centenary Starburst is a striking,

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Fl. pink & yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Moort

Although Moort grows into a small mallee-like tree, the ones that we have seen have been very low growing (in exposed conditions). The bark is smooth, and the leaves are rounded.

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Golden Everlasting, Strawflower

Low growing plant with slightly hairy, sticky leaves.

Pincushion Hakea

The flowers of this shrub or small tree open as a pale cream and later turn red. It can grow in gravel, clay and also sandy soils. The branches are slim and of a reddish brown colour.

Riceflower

Small soft shrub with flower heads at the end of the branches. Small flowers with 4 petals. Leaves small, soft and arranged in opposing pairs along the stem.