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Agrostocrinum hirsutum, Blue Grass Lily, has hairiness evident on buds and stems (see at right). 
Several purple-blue flowers with six petals and a maroon tassel centre on each stem, with a clump from a base. Flower below has additional purple colouring surrounding the centre. Each flower appears to last a day.  Fine grass-like green foliage.
Spring
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia, and found through the South West, Great Southern and Perth regions, extending into the wheatbelt north and east of Perth
 

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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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Adenanthos sericeus, Albany Woolly Bush, Woollybush, Tall Woolly Bush

Foliage only, not flowering.  A shrub with very soft foliage and stems which may be hairy towards the tips. Long red or orange tubular flowers may be found between June and April, emerging from the foliage near to tips of the upright stems

Albany, Great Southern Region, Western Australia and occurs near the coast around Albany and Esperance

  

Similar to Adenanthos cygnorum, Common Woollybush, Woollybush, on which foliage may be silvery green, and tips pink at times of fresh growth, and flowers cream or pink

Found along the coast between Shark Bay and Bunbury, extending inland into parts of the Wheatbelt, and South West Regions

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Agrostocrinum scabrum (not photographed), False Blind Grass, is similar but not as hairy.  It does have small bumps in rows on the buds, and sometimes has short hairs on the stem.  Grass-like foliage is broader than Agrostocrinum hirsutum and has a bluish bloom (glaucus).
 
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Adenanthos sericeus subsp. sericeus, Coastal Woolly Bush

A shrub with very soft foliage and stems which may be hairy towards the tips. Can grow to five metres, and older tree trunks have a textured bark (at left). Long red or orange tubular flowers may be found between March and December, emerging from the foliage near to tips of the upright stems

March

Albany, Great Southern Region, Western Australia and occurs near the coast around Albany and Esperance.

Another subspecies,  Adenanthos sericeus subsp. sphalma
is confined to the east of Esperance at Cape Le Grand, with further specimens found to Israelite Bay. 

 

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Agonis flexuosa, Peppermint tree, Western Australian peppermint, Swan River peppermint, Willow Myrtle, Wanil, Wanill, Wonnow, Wonong or Wannang. 
A tree of up to ten metres in height, with branchlets of slender elongated leaves dangling down. A peppermint scent when leaves are crushed.  Clusters of tiny white five petaled blossoms down the flexible stems.  Nuts (as at right) form after flowering.
July to December, with photos at right taken in March after flowering.
Albany, Great Southern region, and occurs around the coastal fringe from Perth to Bremer Bay. 
 
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