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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
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.
Nicotiana occidentalis, or possibly Nicotiana rotundifolia. Nicotinia species are known as Native Tobacco, Bush Tobacco,
and known to the Aboriginals as Minkul, Pituri, Pitjuri or Mingkulpa.
Nicotiana obliqua (formerly N. occidentalis ssp obliqua) which
is not hairy, is similar.
White trumpet like flowers with five semi divided white petals with a long tubular back of flower, on a small
plant with oval leaves and a crown of base petals.
August September
Yalgoo (above) and Mount Magnet (above right), and Perenjori (below),
Mid West and Wheatbelt regions, Western Australia and found throughout the state with the exception of the northern Kimberley, South
West and south coast.
Neurachne alopecuroidea, Foxtail Mulga Grass
A small native grass with a grey seed head.
Spring
Bridgetown, and occurs widespread
through the state from Shark Bay to east of Esperance, including the South West, Great Southern, Wheatbelt, Mid West and into
the Goldfields
Flowering stage above
Nuytsia floribunda, Christmas Tree, Moodjah, (and variations Mungah, Mudja, Mooja, Moodgar, Moojar, Moojara, Moojerool, Moojoor, Moojoora,
Mootcheroo, Munjah, Munnja, Mutdhoor, Mutyal, Munjee, Moodjal, Muattyaur).
A small to medium sized semi parasitic tree which flowers
around Christmas time with large clusters of orange or yellow flowers.
December
Bunbury, south west region, Western Australia
and found in sandy areas in proximity of host trees around the coastal areas from Leeman to Esperance, and in suitable soils
through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern regions.
21/12/2024
Nicotiana genus includes Nicotiana occidentalis, known at Native Tobacco. This is in fact closely related to the Tobacco plant
grown for making cigarettes, being in the same Nicotiana genus.