Marble Gum
Boab or Adansonia
Sturt's Desert pea
Gidgee or Stinking Wattle
Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod
Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm
Sundew
Cleopatra Needles
Honeysuckle Oak or Spider Flower, Desert Grevillea
Coast Banksia, White Honeysuckle
Frankenia (no common name)
Koch's Pigface
Christmas Tree Mulga
Flannel Flower
Queen of Sheba Orchid
Red Flowered Kurrajong
Coolibah (or Coolabah)
Stunted tree or shrub, 1.2-4 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow-orange, Mar to Jul. Lateritic rocky soils. Sides & hilltopes, breakaway edges.
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,
Eye popping brilliant red or orange-red flowers almost dwarf this low shrub. It only grows to 20cm tall, and often is much smaller. May be prostrate or upright. Leaves about 5mm long.
Prostrate vine. Compound leaves with 3-7 leaflets, covered in short hairs. Dense flowerheads arising in leaf axils.
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.
Found worldwide, purslane is native in parts of Australia but a weed elsewhere. Succulent, prostrate (flat or trailing) to decumbent(flat with ends of stems turned up) annual, herb, to 20 cm high.
Pink Velvet Bush is a shrub that is up to 1.5 m high. The narrow oblong leaves are 4-9 cm long and 0.5-3 cm wide, and are hairless above and covered with rusty hairs below.
Succulent, decumbent annual, herb, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. pink-red, Jul to Oct. Sand, loam. Floodplains, stony plains.
Spreading creeper, dark green heart shaped leaves, purple/mauve/pink flowers that are funnel shaped and 7 or 8cm across.
A brilliant and familiar site along roads in the Kimberley, NT and N. Qld. Usually grows in sandy soils that may become seasonally wet. May be a tree to 8 or 10m tall or a dense spreading shrub.
Shrub or perennial forb to 1.5m tall. Often spiny branches. Leaves succulent, alternating up the stems, 0.2-0.6cm long, flat to flattened cylindrical, hairy.
Annual, herb, 0.02-0.5 m high. Fl. pink/pink-blue, Apr or Jul to Oct. Sandy or loamy soils.
Erect shrub or tree, to 9 m high. Fl. pink & cream, Mar to Jul. Loam, granite. Outcrops.
Erect shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Flowers pink/white, Jul to Nov. Sandy or clayey soils.
Forms a dense gnarled bush up to 2m tall. Leaves grey green, broad, lance shaped. Flowers about 2cm across. Flowers brilliant red although white forms exist. Grows on granite outcrops.
Perennial herb 15–40 cm high, hoary, suckering and forming stands to several meters diam.; branches densely hairy; hairs simple, retrorse, ± appressed, usually wearing off along the ridges.
Viscid shrub, (0.3-)0.5-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Jul to Nov. Sand, gravel, laterite.
This spreading shrub is common in alpine and subalpine areas in Vic, NSW and the ACT. It is showy when in flower over the summer months. The leaves are oblong to elliptical, 2 to 4cm long,
Open, divaricately branched shrub. 0.4-2 m high. Red sand, sandy clay, loam, non-saline.
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.
Erect, robust biennial, herb, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. yellow and is not an Australian Native.
Shrub, 0.3-2.4 m high. Fl. pink-purple/white, Jul to Nov. Sandy, often gravelly soils over granite or laterite. Associated with granite rocks or watercourses.
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