All Wildflowers

Karri Spider Orchid

A high rainfall late flowering spider orchid growing between 300 and 600 mm tall,with a single hairy leaf.The orchid can have up to three variably red, green,

Christmas bells

A tufted perennial herb. The leaves are about 70 cm long, flat with a keeled underside, 2–5 mm wide.The flower stalk is about 80 cm long but can reach up to 175 cm.

Milkmaids

Evocatively named Milkmaids form a lily-like plant with narrow, elongated leaves about 40 cm long. Flowers are held on a slender, 40 cm high stalk that has two leaf-like bracts along its length.

Funnel Web orchid hybrid

Common Leafy Greenhood Orchid

Terrestrial orchid. Green labellum with black central stripe. Locally common in moist forests.

Golden Cowslips

Ground Orchid. Flowering stems to approx 20cm tall. Golden Cowslips is a terrestrial orchid in the Diuris (Donkey Orchid) genus. The flowers are produced in small clusters of up to four,

Scurfy Pomaderris

Shrub to 50 cm high, stems rusty stellate-tomentose. Leaves ovate to broad-elliptic, usually 1–2 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, margins ± crenate,

Kangaroo Island Cone sticks - KI Endemic

Densely branched shrub to 60 cm tall. Branchlets densely grey-puberulent. Leaves 4–8 cm long overall; petiole 2–5 cm long; lamina divaricate, terete, rigid,

Dwarf Hop Bush - SA Endemic

Dioecious spreading shrub to 1 m. Leaves imparipinnate, 0.9–2.6 cm long excluding petiole, rarely to 4.5 cm; lateral leaflets 2–14, obtriangular, obovate, rarely oblanceolate, entire,

Lodges spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Lodges spider orchid, Caladenia lodgeana. This is a late flowering orchid, flowering in November December. It is also uncommon , found in the lower south west ,

Alpine Riceflower

An attractive upright understorey shrub growing to 1 or 2m tall. The stems are glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic, mostly 15–90 mm long, 7–20 mm wide, tips acute to obtuse,

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,

Nodding Banksia

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1.3 m high. Fl. pink-purple/purple-brown, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White or grey sand, gravel. Depressions, coastal consolidated dunes.

Kopata

This pretty little perennial herb occurs in grassy patches in rocky ground at lower elevations. It is found from SE Queensland to Tasmania and also in New Zealand.

Swamp Bee Orchid

Late flowering Bee orchid Grows 200 - 400mm Small Yellow Brown marked flowers

Hakea microcarpa

A shrub with cylindrical, sharp pointed leaves up to about 6cm long. The seed follicle is smooth, slender, dark coloured and usually less than 2cm long. Common on stony slopes in the mountains.

Slipper orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Slipper orchid, Cryptostylis ovata found all over the southwest of WA especially near rivers and creeks.

Rough-leaved Ghost Gum

Smooth white bark and rough almost sandpaper-textured leaves are distinctive features of this beautiful tree of desert areas. The mature crown of these trees is made up of juvenile-type leaves that

Grass Trigger Plant

Trigger plants have a fascinating pollination mechanism where the the long reddish "trigger" is stimulated by a foraging insect to flip across the flower and dump pollen on the back of the insect.

Tasmanian Waratah

Endemic to Tasmania, with a more open flower than NSW's emblem.

Slipper Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.25-0.7 m high. Fl. green & red, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White-grey sand, loam, granite. Sand dunes, outcrops, swamps.

Grey Guinea-flower

This common species is found in woodlands and forests, and even persists in cleared areas. It is a small shrub growing to about 30cm high.

Common Cassinia or Dogwood

This bushy understorey shrub is common in dry forests, particularly in disturbed areas. The narrow leaves are dark green on top and pale below and have a slightly scaly texture,

Coastal spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One of the rarer orchids . This is the coastal spider orchid, Caladenia abbreviata. It flowers in November and is found in isolated pockets near Augusta.