All Wildflowers

Black Powderpuff

A common fungus found growing in sand in arid and semi-arid areas, often seen along desert tracks. A type of stalked puffball, it has a hard woody stem topped with a papery white cap that appears to

Summer-scented Wattle

Dense shrub or tree, 1-6 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct or Dec. Mainly on consolidated sand dunes.

Bladder Saltbush

Taste the salt. Saltbush copes with salty soil by pumping the salt out onto its leaves. This one is a small shrub to about 1 metre high. Leaves 5-25mm long, 3-15mm wide, flat, oval shaped,

Stylidium eriopodum

Creeping perennial, herb (forming compact clumps to 15 cm wide), elevated above soil on wiry stilt roots up to 6 cm long. Fl. yellow-orange-green, Oct to Nov. Gritty loam soils on granite rocks,

Sturt's Desert Pea - unusual colour form

This patch of SDP had pale red to orange petals with a bright pink, pink or whitish "boss" on the standard petal.

Sturt's Desert pea

A spreading vine that can vary in size and habit, with large plants sometimes standing semi-erect, up to 1m tall. Germinates and flowers rapidly after rain. Colour variants are sometimes found.

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.

Stiff Westringia

Low spreading, straggly or erect, pungent shrub, (0.05-)0.15-1(-1.5) m high. Fl. white, Apr to Nov. Variety of soils, frequently in sandy soils over limestone.

Blue Heronsbill

A spash of bright blue against red sand - Erodium cygnorum is a low growing herb commonly found in sandy desert areas. Leaves have 3 main lobes each of which is roughly oval in shape with a lobed

Sticky Tailflower, Sticky Rayflower

A common sight on rocky headlands along the WA south coast. The Sticky Ray-flower is an upright, dense shrub growing up to 3m high and spreading to 4m across. Leaves are broad,

Spotted Poverty Bush

Shrub, 0.5-2 m high. Fl. violet-purple-white, Aug to Oct. Red sand, loam or clay soils. Gibber plains, calcareous flats, jasper outcrops.

Spiny Wattle

Much-branched, erect shrub mostly 0.5–1 m high. Branchlets rigid, terete, striated by rather prominent yellow ribs, green, grey-green or subglaucous between ribs, glabrous, spinose.

Spinifex (Triodia)

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.

Spider Orchid Hybrid

Photos by Graeme W. A hybrid Caladenia. This is a cross between the Sandplain Spider Orchid (C. speciosa) and the Tuart Spider Orchid (C. georgei),

Tinsel-flower

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

Small Monkey Flower

Prostrate annual or perennial, forming broad mats, rooting at nodes, sparsely hairy with white non-glandular hairs, sometimes confined to younger parts and calyx rim.

Banksia tridentata possibly

Large, open shrub, pin cushion like flowers in a rusty orange colour with tough holly-like leaves.

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.