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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.
Mirbelia spinosa
Yellow and red small pea flowers, predominantly red and close together down long stems with very tiny leaves and longer
spines along the stems, on a low to the ground bush.
Spring
Lancelin, west coastal Wheatbelt, Western Australia and found through the
Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West and into the Great Southern regions, with isolated occurrences in the Goldfields and Pilbara
Minuria leptophylla, Minnie Daisy
A low-growing white or purple flowering daisy bush with elongated slender succulent leaves alternating
up the stems.
September
Yalgoo, Mid West region, Western Australia, and found scattered through the arid areas of the Pilbara,
central deserts, and Goldfields to the south east coast.
Morelotia octandra (formerly Tetraria octandra) 2021 (identification not confirmed)
This sedge-like plant has sword shaped leaves, flowers
from a branching stem with fine cream to yellow petals giving it a shaggy appearance
September
Bridgetown, and is found throughout the
South West corner of the state, and from Lancelin to Albany.
