Marble Gum
Boab or Adansonia
Sturt's Desert pea
Gidgee or Stinking Wattle
Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod
Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm
Sundew
Honeysuckle Oak or Spider Flower, Desert Grevillea
Cleopatra Needles
Coast Banksia, White Honeysuckle
Flannel Flower
Christmas Tree Mulga
Frankenia (no common name)
Koch's Pigface
Queen of Sheba Orchid
Red Flowered Kurrajong
Coolibah (or Coolabah)
A tufted herb with wiry strap-like leaves about 30cm long. Spreads by rhizomes. Flowers are slightly hairy, tubular, 2-3cm long, arranged on spikes that are shorter than the leaves.
We found this Nicotiana growing inside a small cave - almost a cave dwelling plant. It favours growing in rocky places like rocky hills, cliffs & outcrops.
A perennial, herb,growing to about 50cm high. Stiff erect form with leaves much reduced in size.
An open shrub to about 4 or 5 metres tall. Leaves are tough, elliptical in shape with a sharp point and slightly thickened, entire margins. Clusters of small white flowers appear in the leaf axils.
Trigger Plants
Non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1.3 m high. Fl. pink-purple/purple-brown, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White or grey sand, gravel. Depressions, coastal consolidated dunes.
Small tufted perennial with pointed grass-like leaves. About 25cm tall. Common growing in sand among heath.
Straggling low shrub to about 1m. Branches covered with thick ridged corky grey bark. Pinkish-mauve flowers produced directly on woody stems. Grows in sandy areas
A straggling low shrub. Leaves are broadly oval ending in a point with numerous longitudinal veins. Small dusky red flowers are slightly furry.
Annual to 50 cm high, erect, with sessile, stalked-stellate or irregularly branched hairs. Basal leaves to 12 cm long; stem leaves reducing to entire, sessile. Sepals to 7 mm long.
Shrub, 0.3-3 m high. Fl. pink/pink-purple, Mar or May to Oct. Red sand, gravelly laterite. Sand dunes or flats, rocky hillsides.
Is the most common of all the Bird Orchids. Grows 20 - 30 cm Distinctive translucent flower Dark green markings
Erect, bushy shrub or tree, 1-3m high, although sometimes reaching 5m. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand, loam, stony soils.
Erect to spreading shrub, 0.3-1.4 m high. Fl. white-pink, Aug to Oct. Grey or yellow sand, lateritic gravel. Sandplains, ridges, lateritic rises.
A standout small shrub with heathlike foliage and conspicuous flowers. Flowers have 5 petals. The calyx remains on the plant long after the flowers have faded,
Annual, herb, 0.04-0.2 m high. Fl. blue-white, Apr to May. Clayey sand. Pool edges, swamps, sandstone outcrops.
Chapmans Spider Orchid Caladenia chapmanii comes in different colour forms from nearly white through to this one - nearly purple. Photo by Graeme W.
Common Beak Orchid Grows 50 - 300mm Dark green red blotched basal leaf Red and White flowers A common orchid in the south west but only flowers after fire.
Shrub 0.4–1 m high. Young stems densely hairy. Leaves alternate or sometimes subopposite, shortly petiolate, ±narrowly elliptic, with long white hairs on both surfaces when young, concolorous,
Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Flowers pink and yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.
Photo by Graeme W. Pink enamel orchid Elythranthera emarginata is much bigger than the purple Enamel Orchid and there is also a named hybrid.
Rigid, much-branched shrub to 2 m high, ± glabrous; stems and branches flat and winged, 3–7 mm wide, often with a white, waxy surface. Leaves reduced to scales c. 2 mm long.
Soft shrub to about 1m. Mauve/pink 4-petalled flowers in spring.
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