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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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Drosera glanduligera, Pimpernel Sundew, Scarlet Sundew

A very tiny Drosera plant with five petalled orange flowers

October

Bridgetown, and occurs over a widespread area of southern Western Australia, including the South West, Great Southern, Goldfields, Wheatbelt and Mid West regions

Drosera macrantha (white cluster flowers) climbing sundew, rainbow creeper, Bridal rainbow, Boon.
Insectivorous, climber, delicate white flowers with five petals in a small cluster at top of climber. Style consists of branching filaments, giving a fluffy appearance. Hairs evident on stems and buds. Circular lamina.
Spring
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and found through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Goldfields, South West and Great Southern Regions to Esperance

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Drosera menziesii, Pink Rainbow, Pink Sundew, Rainbow Creeper.
Insectivorous, delicate flowers with five petals in varying shades of pink, in a small cluster at top of stem. Style consists straight filaments. Circular lamina. Stem and lamina redden with age. Smooth stems with hairy buds. The species is usually a free standing form reaching up to 300 millimetres, but these were leaning across other vegetation. Similar to Drosera drummondii.

Spring
Bridgetown and Tonebridge (Boyup Brook), South West Region, Western Australia, favouring winter wet and swampy areas. Found throughout the South West, Perth, parts of the Wheatbelt into the Mid West, the Great Southern regions, and along the coastal strip to Esperance

Drosera macrantha species has been split, with those with multiple divides of the style filaments becoming Drosera sp. Branched styles. This covers much of the area where they were previously known as Drosera macrantha. This leaves only those with minimally branched styles remaining as Drosera macrantha.

Drosera heterophylla, Swamp Rainbow

An unusual Drosera flower, having more than the usual five petals, with most having eight to ten petals and a corresponding number of stamens with yellow anthers. A freestanding white flowering Sundew, with a cluster of flowers at the top of a single stem. Lamina have a dip in the top.

August

Christmas Rock, Wongan Hills, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and found between Three Springs and Rockingham, inland as far as the Wongan Hills area, favouring swamps and wet areas.

Drosera macrophylla (formerly Drosera macrophylla subspecies macrophylla 2014), Showy Sundew.

White flowers with cream or yellow anthers from a base rosette of foliage with slightly raised midribs. Several flowers per stem. Flowers and foliage larger than the similar Drosera bulbosa and like Drosera monantha. Lamina (leaves) are wider then the other similar species and remains green not reddening as with Drosera monantha.

August

Konnongorring, Goomalling shire, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and occurs between Coorow and Beverley in the central Wheatbelt region.

Drosera monantha (formerly Drosera macrophylla subspecies monantha 2014)

White flowers with cream or yellow anthers from a base rosette of foliage with raised midribs. Flowers and foliage larger than on the similar Drosera bulbosa. Mostly one flower per stem, sometimes two. Stems remain upright when flowering has finished.

A moth can be seen stuck to and being digested by the foliage.

August

Seen at South Kumminin, Shire of Narembeen, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and can be found in parts of the central Wheatbelt.

See more Drosera species on the following pages

Drosera neesii (pink flowers) Jewel Rainbow Sundew

A free standing insectivorous upright or sprawling vine, delicate pink flowers with five petals in a small cluster at top of short flexible stem. Note lamina (sticky pads) are crescent shaped.

Note lamina (sticky pads) are crescent shaped (below).

October November
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and known to occur relatively close to the coast through the Mid West, Perth and South West regions, from Kalbarri to Cape Naturaliste, further inland into the Great Southern Region and along the South coast around Esperance