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These pages will
feature some of the wildflowers I 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.
Ptilotus (species not indentified), Mulla Mulla
A small pink tipped pointed Mulla Mulla on a low growing plant with a
few fine leaves along the long stems
September
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia
Ptilotus (species not indentified), Mulla Mulla
A small pastel pink pompom on a low growing plant with no leaves visible on
this specimen, flowers at the end of long prostrate stems.
December
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia
Ptilotus manglesii Pom Pom, Father Christmas, Rose Tipped Mulla Mulla (above)
Single deep pink tipped white pom pom flowers
about five centimetres in diameter on short stems, with green or red leaves which may be oval or pointed, with a few smaller leaves
alternating along the flowers stems (as in photo above right). Some plants have red and green leaves
Spring, Summer
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and throughout the South West, Mid West, Great Southern and parts of the Wheatbelt
Spring, Summer
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and throughout the South West, Mid West, Great Southern and parts of the Wheatbelt
Ptilotus helipteroides Hairy Mulla Mulla
Small purple pompoms
Winter, Spring
Yalgoo in the inland Mid West, and can also be
found throughout the Pilbara, Gascoyne, Goldfield and inland desert regions
Ptilotus drummondii, Narrowleaf Mulla Mulla (at left and below)
A small pastel pink pompom on semi-upright or sprawling stems
with sparse slender pointed modified leaves along them, on a low growing plant
Spring, Summer
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western
Australia, and grows widespread, across all regions of the state.
A smaller variation of Ptilotus mangelsii (above)
Single deep pink tipped white pom pom flowers around two centimetres diameter
on short stems, with pointed green or red leaves. These are similar to Ptilotus davisii but I have been reliably informed they
are Ptilotus mangelsii
Spring, Summer
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia.
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia.
Ptilotus exaltatus, (formerly Ptilotus nobilis after being changed from Ptilotus exaltatus before the species was again re-classfied)
Tall Mulla Mulla, Purple Mulla Mulla, Pink Mulla Mulla. While some have remained as Ptilotus nobilis, these and the majority
of the former nobilis species are now known as Ptilotus exaltatus
This bushy Mulla Mulla has pink to purple large flowers
with a pointed tip, several branching from the stem from the leafy bush.
Above left in the Kimberley; above right at Yalgoo; at
right from near Mullewa, and occurs widespread through the state with the exception of the South West, Great Southern and
south coast.
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Ptilotus davisii, Davis's Mulla Mulla (this name has been applied to both species formerly known under the interim names of Pilotus
sp. Beaufort River and Ptilotus sp. Porongurup)
November
Between Katanning and Nyabing, Great Southern region, Western Australia and has been recorded from a limited few sites within the South West, south western Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions.
Ptilotus macrocephalus is now known as Ptilotus xerophilus, Featherheads.
See details on next page.