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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 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 wildflower in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.

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Kennedia coccinea (above and above right with a paler variation below) Coral Creeper, Coral Vine, Jarrah Creeper
Orange with pink pea flower with yellow at base of standard, in circular clusters on a climbing vine
Spring
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and occurs mainly closer to the coastal strip between Perth and Esperance, with some found further north and inland.

Kennedia carinata Clover Carpet

Red pea flower with yellow at the base of the standard. A ground creeper with three part leaves.

Spring

Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia, favouring gravelly soils and found through the South West, and around the south coast as far as Albany, around Perth and extending north.

Kennedia prostrata, Scarlet Runner, Running Postman, Pulboorn, Pulbarn, Mirdadjet,Wollung.

Red elongated pea flower with yellow at the base of the standard. Ground creeper. The photos below have white flowers, being an "albino" variation. These can occur with red flecks. Photo at right shows a seed pod, this one being 4.5 centimetres long.

Spring

Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia found from Shark Bay to Esperance, through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West, Great Southern and parts of the Goldfields regions