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Sources used for identification of wildflowers including Aboriginal names shown on these pages, and regions where they occur, are
listed under 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
was seen, 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 wildflowers in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.
Melaleuca thymoides
A low growing shrub with pale yellow round blossoms and short leaves.
October
Bridgetown, South West
region, Western Australia and occurs from around Perth, coastal side of the the South West, lower Great Southern and coastal areas
to Esperance. Some has been found further inland into the Wheatbelt
Melaleuca tuberculata
Round pink fluffy flowers on a low growing shrub with light coloured small oval leaves along the stems.
September
Near Munglinup and found along coastal areas of the Goldfields, southern Wheatbelt, through the Great Southern and adjacent
parts of the South West regions
Melaleuca uncinata, Broom Honeymyrtle, Broom Bush, Kwytyat, Yilbarra, Yilberra
The small shrub above has pale yellow wattle blossoms
with long slender cylindrical leaves which terminate with a hooked spike (photo above left). Uncinate means hooked or barbed.
Spring to early summer
Above left at Dragon Rocks Nature Reserve, Newdegate; above right at Kulin, Wheatbelt regions. Found in
the southern parts of the Esperance - Goldfields region and scattered occurrences further north of this region.
Melaleuca subfalcata
A small shrub with a fluffy bunch a bloom near the end of the stem in a soft pink-mauve colour, which can be in
a bottlebrush form. Narrow pointed foliage along a rough barked stem.
March
Albany, Great Southern Region, Western Australia
and occurs in the coastal strip from Albany to Esperance, extending inland through the Great Southern Region.
Melaleuca viminea, Mohan
A tall shrub with white round bottle brush shaped white, and short leaves. Trunk is hard brown, not paperbark
like some similar Melaleucas.
October
Favours creeklines and wet depressions
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and
occurs south west of aline from Kalbarri to Esperance, through the South West, Great Southern. Perth, Wheatbelt, and Mid
West regions, and extending into the inland Goldfields and along the south coastal strip to Esperance and further east
