All Wildflowers

Club-lipped spider orchid.

photo by Graeme W. The Club-lipped spider orchid, Caladenia corynephora, found in isolated pockets over the south west of WA

Wills' Desert Fuchsia

Erect, spreading or straggly shrub, 0.45-2 m high. Fl. blue-purple, May or Jul to Nov. Red sand. Sand dunes.

Common spider orchid

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.

Longleaved Cone Bush

This unusual shrub appears as a tuft of elongated rounded (terete) leaves about 30cm high with flowerheads and old seed capsules nestled at ground level, in among the leaf bases.

Coastal spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. One of the rarer orchids . This is the coastal spider orchid, Caladenia abbreviata. It flowers in November and is found in isolated pockets near Augusta.

Round-fruit Banksia

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.

Common mignonette orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Mountain Bells

Endemic to SW WA. Small open, erect shrub to about 1m tall. Leaves are small, narrow and heath-like. Flowers a brilliant red-pink, 3-4cm long, pendant, bell shaped.

Torrington Wattle

Small soft shrub growing in moist areas. Phyllodes about 10mm long with a distinct point. Bright yellow flowerheads.

Butterfly Orchid

Caladenia sp.

Photo by Graeme W. Unidentified caladenia. The petals are short and held up and are also partly clubbed.

Fringed Leek Orchid

Spectacular early flowering Leek Orchid Grows 30 - 100cm Up to 70 brownish-green pink and white flowers

Variable Prickly Grevillea

Prickly shrub with holly-like leaves that are whitish on the underside. Grows mostly in heathlands.

Drumsticks

Straggly open shrub with large serrated, prickly leaves. Large flower heads about 7cm across.

Dunsborough spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Dunsborough spider orchid, Caladenia viridescens ,a very rare orchid with perhaps 20 plants left at best, found in the Dunsborough area.

Christines Spider Orchid

Cossack Spider Orchid

One of the listed rare species

Silver Bush

Prostrate to erect shrub, usually under 2m in hight with soft silvery foliage, flowering all year, more common between April and October and is Endemic to Kangaroo Island

Emu Bush

Upright tall shrub to 3m. Large glossy leaves. Flowers narrow, with cinnamon and pinkish markings and subtended by pale pink bracts.

Cherry spider orchid.

Photo by Graeme W.

Emu Bush

Small tree to 5m tall with pendulous leaves up to 15cm long. Flowers dull pink/red.

Pink Fingers.

Small terrestrial orchid growing to about 10cm high. Long narrow leaves. Flowers up to 1.5cm across. Labellum with transverse markings. growing in sclerophyll forest on sandstone.

Sun Orchid hybrid

A sun orchid hybrid that was found south of Mullewa amongst some granite pockets. It is a cross between the T antennifera and T petrophila .

Native Plant