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Pteridium esculentum Bracken fern, Manya, Munda, Moondan-gurnang (above left)
A large perenial fern with fronds which can reach two
metres in height
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia, and common through the South West and Perth regions, with more isolated
occurrences north to Geraldton, the southern coast Albany to Esperance, and inland Wheatbelt
Poranthera huegelii
A small low spreading plant with clusters of tiny white flowers on branching heads. Individual flowers
have six petals, and a star of six white stamens. Narrow pointed leaves. Seed pods like tiny pumpkins forming at right.
Spring
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia, and occurs through the South West, Perth, and lower Great Southern regions,
and along the south coast to Esperance
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 wildflowers in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.
Now considered as not native
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum (formerly Gnaphalium luteo-album and previously was Helichrysum luteoalbum),Laphangium luteoalbum, Jersey Cudweed
A cluster of tiny yellow button-like flowers, with pale bluish green foliage.
November
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and found on locations right across the state, but mostly in the southern
regions.
Prasophyllum fimbria, Fringed Leek orchid
A tall single stem up to one metre, with green flowers up its length, each with an upturned
frilly white labellum with purple colouring in the centre. Foliage consists an elongated pointed leaf which hugs the stem before
turning outwards. Stem colour varies from green to dark brown.
October
Tonebridge (Boyup Brook), South West region, Western
Australia, favouring winter wet areas, and flowering in much greater numbers following a burn. The occur around the coastal strip
from Geraldton to Esperance, extending a little further inland in the south west corner of the state.
Prasophyllum hians, Yawning Leek orchid, Djubac (which also applies to a number of orchids with an edible tuber).
A single stem of
up to fifty centimetres, with flowers up the entire length. Flowers are small and mainly white, dominated by a large upturned
pointed labellum with frilled edges. Stems vary in colour from green to maroon, coming from a single elongated narrow leaf.
October
Tonebridge (Boyup Brook), South West region, Western Australia, favouring winter wet areas, and mostly only flowering
following a burn. Found mainly along the coastal strip between Perth and Ravensthorpe, and extending into a number of Wheatbelt
locations.
Pterochaeta paniculata, Woolly Waitzia
Cup shaped base of flowers support a small white flower with yellow stamens at the top, bunched
together up the stem. Exterior of flowers silvery white. Thick elongated leaves have an ice coated appearance. Plants can stand
up to 18 centimetres high.
October
Tonebridge (Boyup Brook), South West region, Western Australia, and can be found through
the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Perth, South West, Great Southern, and southern Goldfields regions.
Podotheca gnaphalioides, Golden Long-heads
A bunch of bright yellow star shaped five petaled flowers on a long flower base (base of
a finished flower lower right of photo).
Spring
Port Gregory, Mid West region, Western Australia, and found from Shark
Bay to Esperance, through the Gascoyne, Mid West, Wheatbelt, Goldfields, Great Southern region, and parts of the South West, excluding
the south west corner of that region. Favours sandy soils.
