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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.

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Physopsis lachnostachya in now known as Apatelantha lachnostachya, see A

Phyllanthus calycinus was renamed Lysiandra calycina in 2022. See L

Philotheca brucei subsp. brucei 2013 (formerly Eriostemon brucei subsp. brucei), Bruce's Waxflower, Small-leaf Waxflower. There are three subspecies of Philotheca brucei.

Pink of white five petalled flowers on a shrub which can reach two metres in height. Ten upright stamens encircling the ovary. Narrow alternating leaves are up to 1.5 centimetres long and warty. Stems and leaves are covered in bumps (warty).

August

Wilroy nature reserve south of Mullewa, in the Greater Geraldton council area, Mid West region, Western Australia. Found through the Mid West, inland northern Wheatbelt, and in north western parts of the Goldfields region.

Philotheca sericea 2013 (formerly Eriostemon sericeus).

White or pink five petalled flowers with petals covered with short fine hairs, and ten stamens also covered in hairs, with orange anthers which encase the ovary. Stigma is pink. Small alternating concave leaves which widen to a rounded tip. Leaves have slight bumps. Shrubs can reach two metres in height.
Photo at right is fading, but it shows the hairiness.

August

Latham and Pindar, Mid West region, Western Australia. Found through the Mid West and into the northern Wheatbelt region.

Philydrella pygmaea subsp. pygmaea, Butterfly Flower.
A tiny yellow flower which has two large petals, one pointing up and a larger one pointed down. These are fine and delicate and have wavy edges. The other four petals are too small to notice. Flower centre has a single stamen and an ovary. Foliage consists of one or two long very fine cylindrical leaves coming from the ground, curving inward longitudinally, and terminating in a point.

October November

Tonebridge (Boyup Brook shire) and Yornup (Bridgetown-Greenbushes shire) in the South West region, Western Australia. Occurs in the coastal strip from Geraldton to Albany, and inland into the Wheatbelt around York and Beverley. It also occurs around Esperance. Favours winter wet flats and swamps. More frequently found following fires due to reduced competition from large plants.

Phyllangium divergens 1996, Wire Mitrewort.

Tiny white four petalled tubular flowers two millimetres across in a loose cluster from a pair of leaves. Flower tube s within a green fused calyx, with two points. Branching stems are from a similar pair of leaves. Stems are slender and reddish brown, with several growing from a small rosette of four rusty coloured leaves at ground level. May reach ten centimetres long, upright or sprawling.

November

Yornup (Bridgetown-Greenbushes shire) in the South West region, Western Australia. Found from the Coastal Mid West, through the Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern regions, and along the Esperance coast in the southern Goldfields. Grows in swamps, winter wet flats, and around salt lakes.

Philotheca tomentella 2013 (formerly Eriostemon tomentellus), Wooly Waxflower, Grey Waxflower.

Pink and white five petalled flowers with some hairiness on petals and stamens. Rear of flowers and buds have pink striping. Anthers are orange, and stamens encase the ovary. Short cylindrical leaves are opposite, and have a blue/grey appearance from their hairiness, and together with the stems are bumpy (warty).

August

Westonia in the Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and found in the Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions.