All Wildflowers

Common Everlasting

Chrysocephalum apiculatum is a very variable species which is not surprising given its very extensive distribution. It is usually a small, spreading perennial or shrub up to about 0.

Early Nancy

Small plant with strap type leaves growing in a crack in rocks. The flower has six petals and is approximately 30 > 40 mm across. Widespread and common in a range of habitats throughout southem

Mantis Orchid, Spider Orchid

Small ground orchid

Common Rice Flower

Erect or straggling shrub to 50 cm high, stems hairy. Leaves ± elliptic to lanceolate, mostly 5–15 mm long, 2–8 mm wide, glabrous. Flowers in bracteate heads; peduncle 2–19 mm long, pubescent,

Astroloma xerophyllum

Erect shrub, 0.25-1 m high. Fl. white, Jul to Oct. Sandy & lateritic soils. Sandplains.

Derwent Speedwell

Woody herb to c. 140 cm high; stems several or many from a large woody rootstock, mostly erect and unbranched below inflorescence, glabrous or with short,

Scarlet bloodroot

A perennial herb to one meter high. Although it is not a grass, it has a grass-like appearance, with strap-like, narrow, leathery leaves arising from the base of the plant.

Eremophila

Dunna Dunna

Erect, cactus-like shrub, (0.1-)0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green, Jul to Dec. Sandy soils, clay. Gypsum & limestone ridges, near salt lakes.

Spinifex (Triodia)

Emu Bush

Straggling low shrub, growing in red sand. Pale blue flowers with pale pink/mauve bracts. Broad leaves covered in dense short grey hairs giving a matted appearance.

Pink Indigofera

Prostrate vine. Compound leaves with 3-7 leaflets, covered in short hairs. Dense flowerheads arising in leaf axils.

Blue Flax-Lily

Perennial herb to 1 m high, tufted and solitary, or mat-forming; roots fibrous. Leaves to 85 cm long; sheath conduplicate, ± completely occluded; blade 4–12 mm wide.

Sheep's Burr

Plant 25–40 cm high, stems erect or ascending, glabrous or sparsely appressed-pilose. Leaves usually 9–15-foliolate, sometimes to 25-foliolate; leaflets ovate to oblong, longest 10–12 mm long,

Candles

Stackhousia monogyna is the most widespread species and can be found in alpine areas and in coastal districts in heath, grassland, woodland and open forest. It has erect,

Correa backhouseana var. coriacea

Tennis Ball Banksia

Non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-3.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green, Sep to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sand, clay loam, gravel, spongolite, laterite. Hills, top of breakaways.

Granite Kunzea

Forms a dense gnarled bush up to 2m tall. Leaves grey green, broad, lance shaped. Flowers about 2cm across. Flowers brilliant red although white forms exist. Grows on granite outcrops.

Kangaroo Paw - (Tentative) Bicolor subsp. extans

Spindly, low growing plant to 50cm. Flower bright red and green but not as intense as Mangles Kangaroo Paw. Growing in sandy gravel roadside.

Acacia erinacea

Rigid, prickly, intricate, often prostrate, spreading shrub, 0.1-1.5 m high. Flowers yellow, Jun to Nov. Variety of soils, frequently on clay.

Orange Wattle

Dense, often weeping shrub or tree, 1.5-6(-9) m high. Long green phyllodes. Fl. yellow, Jul to Nov. Variety of habitats.

Grey Guinea-flower

This common species is found in woodlands and forests, and even persists in cleared areas. It is a small shrub growing to about 30cm high.

Bussells Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. who decided to show how endangered some of our orchids are. This is Bussells Spider Orchid, Caladenia busselliana. It was discovered by Greg Bussell in 1990.

Tasmanian Waratah

Endemic to Tasmania, with a more open flower than NSW's emblem.