Australia So Much to See
Numerous small yellow pea flowers with red centres on a tall shrub with cascading stems of flowers. Short narrow leaves. Growing along a sandy winter creekline.
October
Bridgetown, South West, Western Australia and is found along the coastal strip and a little further inland through the coastal northern Wheatbelt, Perth and South West regions.
Apatelantha lachnostachya (formerly Physopsis lachnostachya), Henwood
A low and dense bush with fluffy white bud bunched closely along
the end of the stems. Tiny yellow four petalled flowers come from each of these fluffy white bumps
Seen in November and can flower
in other months
Aotus intermedia
Yellow pea flowers with red markings and a red keel. Flowers up the stem of a slender shrub which can grow to
two metres. Thin narrow leaves have a hooked tip.
October
Bridgetown (near Manjimup shire boundary), South West region,
Western Australia. Found in the lower parts of the South West region and around Albany, favouring winter wet flats and swampy
areas.
Anthocercis anisantha subsp. anisantha, known as Spiny Ray-flower and Port Lincoln Ray-flower in South Australia where it occurs on
the Eyre Peninsula with a conservation code of Vulnerable. Not threatened in Western Australia.
A white flower with five elongated
petals and fine purple striped in the flower centre, on a shrub with small oval leaves and spines along the stems, growing up to three
metres.
August
Arthropodium dyeri, one of a group known as Vanilla Lilies. Similar to Dichopogon species.
Purple flowers loosely arranged
along a tall stem, up to 80 centimetres tall. Flowers hang downwards with six long dark purple stamens with yellow at their
base surround a longer style.
August
Anthotroche pannosa, Felted Anthotroche (incorporates the formerly known as Woolly-leaved Anthotroche, Anthotroche healiana, and Anthotroche
blackii),
Velvet-like five petalled purple flowers with a darker outline on an upright or spreading bush with very pale green furry
leaves in tightly packed clusters along the stems
September
Sandstone, Mid West region, Western Australia and found in the Mid West,
northern Wheatbelt, Goldfields and scattered through the inland deserts.