All Wildflowers

Flannel Bush

Low woody shrub. Leaves grey and thickly felted with short grey hairs. Sharp spines on stems and calyx.

Bluerod

Broad Lipped Spider Orchid

Common Coastal Spider Orchid Grows 250 - 500mm Variably Red Cream, Green Yellow flowers. Found in isolated pockets in the south west.

Fuchsia Grevillea

Spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2m-1 m high. Fl. orange-red, Mar or May to Dec or Jan. Granitic soils, sand, loamy clay, lateritic soils. Granite outcrops, hills, sometimes winter-wet flats.

Purple Pansy Orchid

Custard Orchid

A yellow sun orchid

Yellow Featherflower

Small shrub to 0.5m growing in sandy or gravelly soil. Abundant bright yellow flowers in spring, flowers darkening as they age. Each flower has feathery calyx lobes.

Slender Smoke-bush

An erect shrub to 1.5m tall with narrow, upturned leaves. The flower are blue to whiteish in a dense spike.

Native Liquorice

Erect subshrub to 1 m high, ± glabrous. Leaves 2–8 cm long; leaflets 9–13, linear to elliptic or obovate, 15–20 mm long; 2–8 mm wide, apex shortly mucronate, margins with minute, curved hairs,

Bush Tomato

Coast Beard-heath

Erect, densely branched shrub or tree, (0.2-)0.3-3(-5) m high. Fl. white, Feb to Mar or Jun to Oct. Sandy soils over limestone or granite. Coastal dunes & limestone.

Wax Lip Orchid

Small ground orchid, usually one or two flowers on a slender stalk. Common in forested areas on well drained soil.

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Common Leafy Greenhood Orchid

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

Moort

Although Moort grows into a small mallee-like tree, the ones that we have seen have been very low growing (in exposed conditions). The bark is smooth, and the leaves are rounded.

Wild Tobacco or Rosetted Tobacco

Bacon and Eggs

Small woody shrub. Leaves flat, rounded with pointed tip.

Mat Heath Mrytle

Thryptomene ericaea is unique to South Australia. It occurs on Kangaroo Island and, to a lesser extent, on lower Eyre Peninsular. Centenary Starburst is a striking,

Couch honey-pot

It was known as a Dryandra until 2007, when all Dryandra species were transferred to the Genus Banksia. It is a prostrate shrub endemic to Western Australia.

Leucopogon

Straggly, prickly shrub with wiry branches. Narrow leaves ending in a sharppoint.

Hooded leaved Hakea (Scallops)

Shrubs, 1–4 m high. Leaves alternate. Grows amongst medium trees, or low trees (heathland); in gravelly soil. Cucullata (L.): cowled or hooded; referring to the leaves of this species.

Splendid spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Splendid Spider Orchid, Caladenia splendens the second largest of our white spider orchids. The calli have white tips and the petals are very long and taper very quickly .

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.

Dense Clawflower