All Wildflowers

Cleopatra's Needles

Grows to 35cm in height. Early Flowering

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Calytrix

Purple Pansy Orchid

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Fl. pink & yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Custard Orchid

A yellow sun orchid

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,

Winged Wattle

Shrub, 0.3-2.1 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow/pink, Apr to Dec. Variety of soils. Near water, rocky hills, breakaways, salt pans, clay flats.

Wild Tomato

Rounded shrub growing to about 1.5m tall. Prickles up to 1cm long on stems only. All parts covered with short dense hairs that can be silvery or rusty colour.

Slender Onion Orchid

You could easily mistake this common little orchid for grass. A small terrestrial orchid with 10s of tiny flowers crowded along a flowering spike that can grow up tp to 30cm tall.

Swainsona beasleyana

Procumbent perennial, herb, to 0.2 m high. Flowers purple-blue-pink, Aug to Sep. Red sandy or gravelly loam soils.

Yam Daisy

Perennial herb to 40 cm high with fleshy tuberous roots. Leaves all basal, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4–30 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, apex acute, base tapered,

Tiger Orchid

medium sized orchid growing in coastal heathland in Bridport, Tasmania.

Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid Prasophyllum elatum. Found in isolated pockets of the south west , it only flowers after fire. This orchid can grow to 120cms tall.

Snow Myrtle

Open shrub up to 2m tall growing as an understorey in open forest and woodland.

Synaphea spinulosa subsp spinulosa

Scruffy low growing bush with small yellow flower spikes. leaves tough and spikey. Growing gravelly sandy soil

Tea Tree

Smelling sweet ,Tea Tree blossoms blowing like confetti in the wind line the roads of Flinders Island.

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.

Small Darwinia

Darwinia micropetala, commonly known as Small Darwinia, is a small shrub that is native to south-eastern Australia. It grows to 0.5 metres high and has small leaves and clusters of small white and

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Swordfish Banksia

Densely branched, lignotuberous shrub, 1-4 m high. Flowers are yellow, and inflorescences hang down. Flowering is Jan to Mar or May. Yellow or brown sand, sometimes with lateritic gravel.

Yawning Leek Orchid.

Photo by Graeme W. An unusual one in that it should only flower after summer fire but there has been no fire where I found this. Prasophyllum hians, the Yawning Leek Orchid.

Smooth Fringe Myrtle

Small woody shrub to 1m tall with tiny, smooth leaves and is endemic to South Australia.

Illyarrie

Tree, 3-8(-14) m high, bark smooth. Fl. yellow, Feb to Apr. Sandy soils. Limestone ridges & outcrops.