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Acacia insolita subsp insolita (at right and below)
Light yellow blooms on as small bush with ferny blue-green leaves.
August
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and occurs in the central South West extending into the Wheatbelt around Narrogin and Williams
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Acacia extensa, Wiry Wattle (above)
A somewhat sprawling plant with modified leaves as spines on a medium sized bush.  Small bright yellow wattle flowers.
September
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and occurs in the South West region, south west parts of the Great Southern region, Perth environs and extending north of Perth into the northern wheatbelt. 

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Acacia littorea, Shark Tooth Wattle, Coastal Dune Wattle (foliage only shown above). 
Light yellow blooms on short stems from the base of each leave.  Buds can be seen forming above right.  Bushes can grow to three metres in height. Sail shaped leaves with a spine on the outward tip, are almost paired being closer together than alternating.   
August to November
Albany, Great Southern region, Western Australia and occurs mainly close to the coast from Busselton to Bremer Bay, as well as around Perth, favouring sandy soils, coastal dunes and limestone.
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Acacia divergens, Sail-boat Wattle, foliage only photographed.

Sail shaped leaves with a spine at tip, in slightly offset pairs all along the stems.  Pale yellow blossoms can occur August to November. 

Not flowering when seen in December

Northcliffe, South West Region, and mostly found near the coast between Perth and Albany, as well as around the Stirling Range.  Perth, South West and Great Southern Regions. 

Favours along water courses and near swamps. 
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Acacia merrallii, Merrills Wattle

Single round yellow blossoms on a short stem from the leave base.  Leaves oval to a point, often blue-grey toned and outlined with a lighter colour, and have a powdery bloom, some fine hairiness particularly when young.  A spreading mound shaped bush, with some growing to two metres.

Seeding stage not seen.

August

Westonia, Wheatbelt, Western Australia, and found through the Wheatbelt and parts of the Goldfields. 

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Acacia erinacea, Prickly Wattle

Round yellow flowers from orange-red buds growing singly from the leaf joint.  Foliage is sparse, with oval leaves terminating in a short spine at the tip.  A low growing shrub, up to 2.5 metres high, and often wider than height. Branches white or grey, with large spikes, often with little or no foliage.  New branches are red.  Pods are short and broad, red when young.

August

Westonia, Wheatbelt region, and found from Kalbarri through the Mid West and Wheatbelt and the Goldfields regions. 

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Acacia grasbyi, Miniritchie

One of a number of Acacia species with minni ritchie type of curling red bark.  Round to elongated yellow blooms which were finished when these photographs were taken.  Fat elongated seed pods.  Foliage (phyllodes) consists of upright long fine cylindrical phyllodes, with multi-veins just visible along them, terminating in a small spine.  Shrub grows to four metres.  Pods are long and four to eight millimetres wide. 

August

Yalgoo, and found from Geraldton though the Mid West and inland to Leister, south a little way into the Wheatbelt.  

Acacia hemiteles, Tan Wattle, Broombush

Stems with numerous small golden flowers from the leaf joint.   Foliage stiff elongated phyllodes which may be straight or slightly curved end in a spine at the tip, prominent midrib and yellow leaf margin.  Wide bushes with multiple stems reach one to two metres high, densely covered in blooms in season.  Seeding stage not seen.

August

Near Menzies in the Goldfields, and found through much of the Goldfields and Wheatbelt, and into the Mid West.
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.
 
With around 1,200 species of Acacia in Australia, many of these are found in Western Australia, ranging from tall trees to low growing shrubs.  They are found in all climate regions.  With some, mostly seen only when flowering so without seeing the pods or seeds, positive identification cannot be made.  Those named here are in these cases without a degree of certainty.