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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.
Patersonia occidentalis Purple Lily, Blue Flag, Grass-leafed Patersonia, Native Iris
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Port Gregory, Mid West region, Western Australia (below)
Patersonia occidentalis Purple Lily, Blue Flag, Grass-leafed Patersonia, Native Iris
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Port Gregory, Mid West region, Western Australia (below)
Patersonia occidentalis Purple Lily, Blue Flag, Grass-leafed Patersonia, Native Iris
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Port Gregory, Mid West region, Western Australia (below)
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Patersonia occidentalis Purple Lily, Blue Flag, Grass-leafed Patersonia, Native Iris
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Purple, three petals
Late Winter through to early Summer
Above at Lancelin to the north of Perth and to right at Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found from Shark Bay to Esperance and areas to the southwest of this line.
Port Gregory, Mid West region, Western Australia (below)
The Patersonia at left was photographed near Port Gregory in the Mid West region in Spring, and has broader and lightly
crinkly petals and a more mauve shade than the specimens from the South West shown above.
Possibly sub species of Patersonia
occidentalis.
