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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.
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of these wildflower in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.
Acacia stenoptera, Narrow Winged Wattle
A small plant with spiny modified leaves from a thickened stem. Buds are yellow
and soft fluffy blossoms are white and tipped with yellow pollen
Autumn
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and occurs
throughout the South West, and much of the Wheatbelt, Mid West and Great Southern regions
Acacia willdenowiana, wattle grass, grass wattle or two-winged acacia
A sprawling plant with no leaves and a thickened (winged)
stem. Soft yellow or white blossoms
September
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and occurs in the South West,
Great Southern, Perth regions and into the northern Wheatbelt.
Acacia tetragonophylla, Dead Finish, Kurara, Gurarra.
Round yellow Acacia blooms with fine modified leaves ending in a spine,
some in groups. A medium sized shrub.
August, mostly still in bud.
Agnew and Leinster, Goldfields Region, Western Australia and
occurs through much of the state, excluding the Kimberley Region, the South West, and the southern coastal areas.
Acacia saligna subsp. Southern Forest (ie variant cyanophylla), Orange Wattle, Golden Wreath Wattle Blue Leaf Wattle, Blue Leaved
Wattle, Blue-leaf Wattle, Blue-leafed Wattle, Blue-Leaved Wattle, Coojong, Golden Willow Wattle, Golden-wreath Wattle, Port Jackson
Wattle, Port Jackson Willow, Weeping Wattle, Western Australian Golden Wattle, Western Wattle, Willow Wattle, Cujong, Coojong, Kudjong,
Kileyung, Kalyung,Quonert, Wuanga.
An Acacia tree with large sized (1.2 centimetres) round blooms in a golden colour
in loose clusters of up to ten blooms on each flower stalk. Long leaves have short leaf stalks.
August September October
Bridgetown,
South West Region, Western Australia and Acacia saligna and subspecies are found from Shark Bay to Esperance, through the Mid West,
Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern regions, the coastal Goldfields and extending into the inland Goldfields region.
Acacia steedmanii subsp steedmanii, Southern Steedman's Wattle
A medium sized shrub with golden blooms on short stems along the branchlets
at the ends of each stem. Elongated oval leaves with a point at the tip.
August
Near Moorine Rock in the eastern Wheatbelt Shire
of Yilgarn. Found mainly in a circle roughly
between Bruce Rock, Forestania, Bulla Bulling (West of Coolgardie) and Paynes find,
with a few outliers north west of this.
Acacia yorkrakinensis, Soft-leaf Wodjil
A domed shrub with elongated flowers 1.5 – 2.5 centimetres long. Narrow elongated many-veined
leaves with red edges
August, seen here just opening
Merredin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and found through part of the Wheatbelt,
and extending into the Goldfield towards Kalgoorlie.