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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 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.

Home > Lists and Links > Nature in Australia > Alphabetical Wildflower Index > Wildflowers P-2b

Persoonia longifolia Snottygobble. Upright Snottygobble, Long-leaf Persoonia, or Snottygobble

Small tree with red or brown paper-like bark (above left), golden flowers and edible green fruit (above right). Flowers have an odour.

Summer

Bridgetown, Western Australia and occurs through the South West from Perth to Albany.

This tree is the floral emblem of the Bridgetown-Greenbushes Council.

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Persoonia quinquenervis

Small tree with golden flowers on a shrub with elongated ribbed foliage

November, and can flower from July to February

Kulin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia and occurs through the Wheatbelt, and adjacent parts of the Mid West, Great Southern and Goldfields regions

Petrophile axillaris

Pink and white clusters of Grevillea-like flowers with bright yellow stamens along the stem of a tall or spreading shrub. Foliage consists of multi-branching needle like leaves.

Spring

Lancelin, coastal Wheatbelt region, and in the coastal strip from Geraldton to Augusta

Pericalymma ellipticum 1999 (formerly Leptospermum ellipticum), Swamp teatree
Small pink/white five petalled flowers which grow along or at the ends of the branchlets, on a teatree bush which can grow up to three metres high. Leaves are elongated and widening to near the tip, where they culminate with a small spine.

October November

Heartlea district, between Tonebridge and Mayanup (Boyup Brook shire), and Yornup (Bridgetown-Greenbushes shire), South West region, Western Australia. Favours winter wet areas through the Great Southern, South West and Perth regions, and adjacent parts of the Wheatbelt, extending north of Perth to Lancelin

Persoonia saundersiana or possibly Persoonia angustifolia, Snottygobble together with all Persoonia species. These are known as Geebung in some states. These photos have flowers that fit Persoonia saundersiana and leaves possibly more like Persoonia angustifolia.

Yellow tubular four petals flowers, with a bump half way along the tube. Narrow elongated foliage. In Persoonia saundersiana leaves are slightly curved upwards from centre, and have striations. Leaves of Persoonia angustifolia are narrow cylindrical and lightly hairy. Neither appear to have as much curling as these leaves.
August, with flowers just starting to open.

Moorine Rock, Shire of Yilgarn in the eastern Wheatbelt region, Western Australia. Persoonia saundersiana is found through the Wheatbelt and into the western side of the Goldfield, with some at Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region.

Petrophile chrysantha

Complex yellow mop shaped flowers at top of a stem clad with tiny leaves

Spring

Marchagee Nature Reserve and occurs in the sandplains between Perth and Geraldton

Petrophile diversifolia, Conestick (with Conestick, Conebush, and Coneflower also applying to all Petrophile species).

A single stemmed upright shrub growing up to three metres in height. Flower heads of white, cream or pink long furry tubular flowers. Foliage consists of large bipinnate leaves, that is leaves divided with leaf sections further divided.

Seen in December with flowers dropping and cones forming at the end of its flowering season.

Northcliffe, Manjimup shire, South West region, Western Australia. Found through the lower South West and lower Great Southern regions, between Dunsborough and Albany areas.

See more Petrophile species on the next page

Petrophile glauca

Clusters of creamy white flowers forming a Petrophile flower head, well faded here. A low to medium sized shrub with foliage that consists of large flat leaves, with two pairs of branches before a point which may be divided into three. Points of these leaf parts seem variable and can be single, double or triple. Hairiness on new growth only, which can be red or tipped with red.

November, but at the end of its flowering season

Kulin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and occurs in the southern Wheatbelt, and adjacent Great Southern regions as well as south coastal Bremer Bay to Ravensthorpe

Persicaria prostrata, Creeping Knotweed, Trailing Knotweed.

This species is native, but in a not native environment (farm dam). A low growing spreading plant with elongated leaves tapering to a pointed tip. Tiny five petalled white flowers in sprays (buds only when seen). Foliage and leaves slightly hairy.
February, with flower buds.
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia. Found in winter wet flats, favouring clay, in limited locations in eh Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions, and through the South West and Great Southern regions.