Marble Gum
Boab or Adansonia
Sturt's Desert pea
Gidgee or Stinking Wattle
Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod
Red Lechenaultia
Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm
Sundew
native pea, orange
Dotted Sun Orchid
kangaroo paw
Waratah
Flannel Flower
Honeysuckle Oak or Spider Flower, Desert Grevillea
Rainbow sun dew
Kangaroo Paw - Yellow
lichen
Photo by Graeme W.
photo by Graeme W. The Club-lipped spider orchid, Caladenia corynephora, found in isolated pockets over the south west of WA
WA is not the only state to have smokbush. This one is found in the south east of the country. It grows to one or 2 metres tall, and has long thin leaves up to 20cm long.
This shrub grows up to 1.5m tall and has creamy flowers that are up to 4cm across. It range is from Albany to Esperance and Northward to the Stirling's and Lake Grace.
Smelling sweet ,Tea Tree blossoms blowing like confetti in the wind line the roads of Flinders Island.
The common white spider orchid, is probably the most misidentified orchid in WA. While common, it has different forms in different areas making for a difficult identification.
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.
Erect, multi-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. white-other, Jul to Dec. Sand, gravel, laterite. Sandplains.
photo by Graeme W.
Erect, spreading or straggly shrub, 0.45-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, May or Jul to Nov. Red sand. Sand dunes.
A small ground orchid growing to about 20cm tall. The flower is small with a distinctive striped labellum that also has a mass of dark calli. Petals and dorsal sepals turn downwards.
Tuberous, perennial herb, 0.2-0.45 m high. Flowers Sept. to Oct. Grows in Sand, clayey loam and gravel.
Flowers: perianth cream turning pink, red style. Leaves 3-9cm, leathery, holly-like with prickly margins.
Low shrub to 1.5m. Leaves narrow, edges rolled under, about 3cm long. Flower spikes change colour as flowers mature - from pale green/yellow, to mauve and purple to brown.
Early flowering species Grows 100-250mm One or two oblong, green purple striped leaves
Leaf narrow-linear, to 15 cm long and 4 mm wide, and sparsely hairy. Inflorescence to 24 cm high, 1–3-flowered. Flowers often sweet to musky scented. Sepals and lateral petals usually 0.8–1.
Straggling stalks covered with long flat leaves that end in a sharp point. Small creamy white flowers in leaf axils. Damp areas near watercourse.
Grows in colonies Single long narrow leathery leaf Prominent hood like dorsal sepal
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.
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.
Grows to 100mm - 250mm in height Striking pink flowers
Erect annual, herb, 0.05-0.3(-0.5) m high.
Photo by Graeme W
Erect,compact shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. red/pink, Feb or May to Dec. White, grey or yellow sand, sandy clay, gravel. Among low scrub.
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