All Wildflowers

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.

Caladenia denticulata subsp. red flowering

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

Riceflower

Small soft shrub to about 70cm. Smooth oval leaves in opposite pairs along stems. Small four petaled yellow flowers in heads at the end of branches.

Painted Lady

This slender little bush with small narrow leaves has some of the most striking flowers of the pea family. Flowers are pink/mauve with reddish tinges,

Riceflower

Small woody shrub with multiple slender stems arising at ground level, giving a rounded appearance. Grows to about 1m tall. Small oval leaves 1cm long densely packed in 4 rows along stems.

Barrens Regelia

Sand Bottlebrush

Not your ordinary bottlebrush. Beaufortia squarrosa is a medium open shrub. Leaves are arranged with geometrical precision - small and rounded, crowded along the stem in alternating opposite pairs.

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.

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.

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.

Pink Fairy Orchid

Grows to 100mm - 250mm in height Striking pink flowers

Scarlet Bottle-brush

Scarlet Bottlebrush grows up to 4 metres in height and has stiff, sharply pointed leaves which are 3 to 5 cm long and 4 to 7 mm wide. The flower spikes are 5 to 8 cm in length and about 4 to 5 cm in

Prickly Heath

Straggling stalks covered with long flat leaves that end in a sharp point. Small creamy white flowers in leaf axils. Damp areas near watercourse.

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,

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,

Common Smokebush

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

Purple Pansy Orchid

One of our donkey orchids

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Purple Pansy Orchid

Mt Finke Grevillea

Grevillea treueriana, also known known as Mount Finke grevillea, is a shrub that is endemic to Mount Finke in South Australia. It is listed as vulnerable under the EPBC Act.

Swainsona beasleyana

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

Swamp Bee Orchid

Late flowering Bee orchid Grows 200 - 400mm Small Yellow Brown marked flowers

Forrest Mantis Orchid

photo by Graeme W.

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.