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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, square in cross section, phyllodes
ending in a spine, with some in groups. A medium sized shrub.
August, mostly still in bud. Seeding stage not seen.
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 yorkrakinensis, Soft-leaf Wodjil
A domed shrub with elongated flowers 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres long. Narrow elongated
many-veined leaves with red edges. Seeding stage not seen.
August, seen here just opening
Merredin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia,
and found through part of the Wheatbelt, and extending into the Goldfields towards Kalgoorlie.
Acacia sulcata var. platyphylla
Yellow blossoms towards the tips of the branchlets, with one per leaf joint on a short stem. Fleshy, somewhat succulent phyllodes basically cylindrical, and slightly flattening in variety platyphylla (meaning flat leaves). These may have a spine on the blunt tip, and have an indented groove at the midrib, and may have other grooves up the phyllodes. Generally
a spreading shrub, but can be erect and up to three metres tall. Seeding stage not seen.
August
Tarin Rock Nature Reserve,
Shire of Dumbleyung, Wheatbelt, and found mainly in the southern Wheatbelt and Great Southern, and coast Goldfields regions.
Acacia stereophylla var. stereophylla, Stiff-leaf Wodjil
Elongated golden blooms with very short peduncles (flower stems), often two
from the one leaf joint. Phyllodes long and narrow with fine nerves, closely parallel, phyllode terminating in a sharp tip. Shrubs can grow up to six metres tall, and generally have a trunk, with multiple fanning out. Blooms towards to top of the branchlets.
Seeding stage not seen.
August
Moorine Rock, and occurs through the Mid West and northern inland Wheatbelt, mostly north of the
Perth to Kalgoorlie Great Eastern Highway, and into the Goldfields towards Coolgardie with a few outliers to the north.
Acacia
stereophylla var. cylindrata has fine cylindrical phyllodes, and in only found in a few locations near Kalbarri.
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.