Lamiaceae Wildflowers

Cyanostegia or Tinsel Flower

Member - John and Val — Sun, 18 May 2014 02:12:00 GMT

With its startling purple flowers, Cyanostegia could almost be mistaken for a weed. But its a true Australian native. Rounded, open woody shrub to about 1m. Oval leaves with serrated edges. Dark purple flowers about 2.5cm across, surrounded by a glossy purple calyx which stays on the plant after the flower has died off.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Cyanostegia Species: cyanocalyx Main Flower Colour: Purple

Forest Mint

Member - John and Val — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 05:28:00 GMT

A common species in mountain gullies in the ACT, where it prefers shady places near water. It is a small plant with weak stems. Leaves are about 2cm long with almost entire margins. There are 6-8 mauve flowers at the nodes. Flowers have 4 petals and exerted stamens.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Mentha Species: laxiflora Main Flower Colour: Mauve

Golden Sand Sage

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:15:00 GMT

Shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. white-yellow, Apr to Nov. Red sand, gravel. Sand dunes & plains. Note; this plant can often be a dominant along the WA desert tracks. Generally unremarkable, its dull green/yellow is often a track's defining colour.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Dicrastylis Species: exsuccosa Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Golden Sand Sage

Alan McCall — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:29:00 GMT

The individual flowers are tiny with white petals, but the enlarged calyx gives an overall impression that the flowers are yellow.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Dicrastylis Species: exsuccosa Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Grey Germander

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:53:00 GMT

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. Leaves simple; lamina narrow-ovate, usually 1–2 cm long, 2–6 mm wide; apex subacute; base cuneate; margins entire or sparingly and irregularly lobed, usually unevenly recurved and/or undulate; ± densely hairy, particularly on lower surface; ± sessile. Flowers solitary per leaf axil, rarely 3; pedicel 4–7 mm long, often horizontal with apex and flower erect. Sepals 2–5 mm long, fused for one- to two-thirds their length, densely hairy with hairs simple and retrorse. Corolla 8–14 mm long.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Teucrium Species: racemosum Main Flower Colour: White

Hemigenia

Member - Tony S (WA) — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:48:00 GMT

A compact shrub bearing purple flowers.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Hemigenia Species: benthamii Main Flower Colour: Purple

Hemigenia pachyphylla

Member - John and Val — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:41:00 GMT

A tough woody shrub growing to about 3m high. Conspicuous white flowers marked with red streaks. Flowers in leaf axils. Leaves thick (hence the name pachyphylla meaning thick leaf) with mid vein. Leaf surface scabrous. Growing on red sand in arid scrubland.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Hemigenia Species: pachyphylla Main Flower Colour: White

Lambtails

Member - John and Val — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:15:00 GMT

Lambs Tails is exactly what the flower heads look like. Flower heads appear woolly and white due to a dense covering of hair giving a woolly appearance. Actual flowers are small and appear black/purple. Rounded shrub to 1.5m, growing in gravelly sand. Leaves about 3cm long, linear with a felted texture.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Lachnostachys Species: eriobotrya Main Flower Colour: Other

Mint Bush

Member - John and Val — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:25:00 GMT

Shrub with minty aromatic leaves. Grows in sheltered places near rocks or streams.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Prostanthera Species: rotundifolia Main Flower Colour: Purple

Native Foxglove

John Baas — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:01:00 GMT

An extremely attractive plant when in full flower. It is found widely around the eastern wheatbelt in the light colour as per the Yellowdine area photographs, to deep burgundy north of Muckinbudin, as in the Paynes Find area pics, with pink shades in between.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Dasymalla Species: terminalis Main Flower Colour: Pink

Newcastelia cephalantha

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:16:00 GMT

Much-branched shrub, 0.3-1.2 m high. Fl. white-purple, Jun to Oct. Red sandy soils. Sandplains, dunes.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Newcastelia Species: cephalantha Main Flower Colour: White

Quoya dilatata

Member - John and Val — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 03:46:00 GMT

Small shrub with crinkly grey-green leaves. Flowers bright orange. Single plant located at Jingemmia Caves.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Quoya Species: dilatata Main Flower Colour: Orange

Spiny Mintbush

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:17:00 GMT

IN NSW Prostanthera spinosa is an aromatic, scrambling, prostrate shrub, to 0.5 metres high. It is erect and reaches up to 2 metres in Victoria and South Australia. The branches are glabrous or hairy with spines to 16 mm long that alternate in pairs at right angles. Leaves are 1.5-6 mm long, 1-4 mm wide slightly recurved and a light to dark green surface. ... source: Office of Environment and Heritage
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Prostanthera Species: spinosa Main Flower Colour: Purple

Stiff Westringia

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:17:00 GMT

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.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Westringia Species: rigida Main Flower Colour: White

Tinsel-flower

John Baas — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:37:00 GMT

Viscid shrub, (0.3-)0.5-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Jul to Nov. Sand, gravel, laterite.
Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Cyanostegia Species: angustifolia Main Flower Colour: Blue