All Wildflowers

Red Mallee

Mallee, to 5 m high, bark rough on trunk, smooth above. Fl. yellow/cream, Jul. Red-grey loam, limestone. Calcareous flats, stony screes.

Red beaks

Common Beak Orchid Grows 50 - 300mm Dark green red blotched basal leaf Red and White flowers A common orchid in the south west but only flowers after fire.

Bird Orchid

This orchid which grows to about 25cm high. The flower has a distinctive shiny, patterned appearance. The colours on the single flower range from a network of green,

Bush Tomato

Dense low shrub to 50cm high. Leaves deeply lobed, prickly.

Bush Tomato

Low soft shrub. Elongated, grey leaves.

Purple Pansy Orchid

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.

Purple Beard Orchid

Leaf linear to lanceolate, to 30 cm long and 13 mm wide, dark green. Inflorescence to 46 cm high, 1–5-flowered. Sepals and lateral petals reddish brown with darker stripes. Labellum c. 15 mm long,

Isopogon latifolius

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

Caladenia denticulata subsp. red flowering

This orchid has the same characteristics as the Yellow spider orchid except that the petals are red in colour.

Common Smokebush

Erect, multi-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. white-other, Jul to Dec. Sand, gravel, laterite. Sandplains.

Common Flat-pea

Wiry low shrub common as understorey in heaths. Leaves opposite, arrow shaped with sharp points. Red and yellow pea flowers in the axils of upper leaves. Seed pods flat.

Cleopatra's Needles

Grows to 35cm in height. Early Flowering

Chestnut Sun Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Chestnut Sun Orchid, Thelymitra fuscolutea, a stunning sun orchid, found in SW WA in isolated areas only.

Poverty Bush

Erect, open shrub, (0.5-)1-4(-5) m high. Fl. white/cream-yellow/red-pink-purple, Jun to Dec or Jan to Mar. Frequently on red or stony soils. Variety of habitats.

Five Veined Grevillea

Erect dense shrub 1–1.5 m tall. Branchlets angular and ridged, sericeous to tomentose. Leaves sublinear to oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6 cm long, 1.

Helmet Orchid

Photo by Graeme W

Heberle's spider orchid

Tuberous, perennial herb, 0.2-0.45 m high. Flowers Sept. to Oct. Grows in Sand, clayey loam and gravel.

Hare Orchid

Early flowering species Grows 100-250mm One or two oblong, green purple striped leaves

Common mignonette orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Grevillea insignis supsp. insignis

Flowers: perianth cream turning pink, red style. Leaves 3-9cm, leathery, holly-like with prickly margins.

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.

Gland Flower

Adenanthos terminalis, commonly known as Gland Flower, Yellow Gland Flower or Adenanthos, is a one metre tall shrub in the Proteaceae family. It is found in south eastern regions of Australia,