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Sources used for identification of wildflowers shown on these pages and regions where they occur see Credits
These pages will
feature some of the wildflowers we have photographed in Western Australia, and where possible, identified. If you
are able to help identify further flowers, or correct any I may have wrong, please contact us.
Information given for each species
will give botanical name, known common names, describe the flower, give time of year it flowered, and where it was photographed, and
the areas it occurs in. Names have been matched to Florabase which has also been used to show distribution.
See some
of these wildflower in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.
Craspedia variabilis Billy buttons, bachelor buttons, Common billy-buttons, Variable billy buttons.
Yellow, button, single at the top
of a tall stem.
Late Winter, Spring
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and occurs in the Perth, South West and parts of the Great Southern regions, with some isolated occurences in the costal strip between Perth and Geraldton and around the south coast to Esperance.
Late Winter, Spring
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and occurs in the Perth, South West and parts of the Great Southern regions, with some isolated occurences in the costal strip between Perth and Geraldton and around the south coast to Esperance.
Corymbia calophylla, Marri, Red Gum, (also Gardan, Gyrdan, Kardan, Kurrden, Mahree, Maree, Marree, Marril, Mundup, Nandap, Nandup,
Ngora, Ngumbat).
A large and spreading eucalyptus tree
Prolific white fluffy eucalypt flowers in bunches, which can
cover the tree in a good season. It is a rough barked tree, which oozes a sticky red sap as shown at right.
December to May
Bridgetown,
South West Region, Western Australia, and occurs throughout the South West, extending north of Perth and around the Albany area.
Occurrences diminish into the inland Wheatbelt.
Coopernookia strophiolata
Creamy white flowers, with three petals pointing downwards and two curled up and towards each other at the
tip, on a small bush with elongated oval leaves with irregular edges
September
Kulin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and occurs
through the Great Southern region and southern Wheatbelt, and the Goldfields.
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Cryptandra nutans
Small white five petalled flowers, with five prominent white anthers. Distinctive rounded buds. Foliage
of small blunt succulent leaves, on a small shrub.
August
Hyden-Norseman Road, Goldfields Region, Western Australia, and grows
through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Great Southern and parts of the South West regions, and extends into the coastal Goldfields to Esperance
and further east along the coastal strip.
Cryptandra arbutiflora var arbutiflora, Waxy Cryptandra
A small shrub with white tubular bell shaped flowers along the stems
Spring
Bridgetown
and found through the South West, Great Southern, into the Wheatbelt, Perth region and to the north of Perth, as well as around Geraldton
Touches
of pink at right as flowers fade