All Wildflowers

Slipper Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.25-0.7 m high. Fl. green & red, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White-grey sand, loam, granite. Sand dunes, outcrops, swamps.

Lodges spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Lodges spider orchid, Caladenia lodgeana. This is a late flowering orchid, flowering in November December. It is also uncommon , found in the lower south west ,

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.

Native Plant

Esperance King Spider Orchid

Colourful Spider Orchid Grows 250 - 500mm. Up to three red yellow and green flowers Red tipped labellum

Crimson Spider Orchid

Emu Bush

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

Yellow Conesticks

An attractive, erect shrub with perfumed flowers that grows up to about 1 m tall. Branchlets and leaves smooth. Leaves simple, ending in a pungent (sharp) point. Inflorescence (flowerhead) rounded,

Variable Prickly Grevillea

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

Caladenia hybrid

Grevillea thyrsoides

Low shrub with a somewhat lax, weeping habit. Leaves simple but divided into deep lobes giving a ferny appearance. Flowers dusky pink in terminal infloresences held on a long stem,

Frail Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. Another of our very rare orchids , the Frail Spider Orchid, Caladenia uliginosa.

Scott River Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Rusty Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Rusty Spider Orchid, Caladenia ferruginea found in the whole of the south west area

Mustard Orchid

Melaleuca

Woody shrub to 3m. Branches covered with papery bark. Leaves small and narrow.

Little Pink Fairy Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.05-0.15 m high. Fl. pink, Jul to Sept. Sand, loam, gravel, laterite, granite. Open jarrah, wandoo woodland.

Little Leek Orchid

Grows to 200-400mm Wide opening flowers Egg shaped labellum Up to 20 White, Green and Brown flowers

Hovea

Erect open shrub to 1.5m. Narrow leaves, .

Swamp Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Swamp Spider Orchid, Caladenia paludosa is the orchid most confused with the Dunsborough Spider Orchid but is bigger and has a much later flowering period.

Swamp Spider Orchid

A common orchid that has up to three red greenish-yellow and cream flowers.Spreading petals, narrowly clubbed lateral sepals and a white or greenish yellow red tipped projecting labellum.

Isopogon baxteri

Straggling, open shrub. Leaves deep green, deeply lobed, each lobe terminating in a sharp point. Large flower heads of feathery pink flowers. Endemic to Stirling Ranges.

Thryptomene

Small thick, rounded shrub growing in red sand.

Tangled white spider orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.4 m high. Fl. cream-white. Grows in gravel, laterite, sandy clay. Winter-wet Wandoo flats.