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Dryandra species have recently (2007) been renamed as part of the Banksia family in a controversial move. See Banksia for Banksia dallanneyi, (formerly Dryandra lindleyana), and for Banksia sessillis (formerly Dryandra sessillis) and others.

This change is not supported by everyone. See more here. An additional paper can be seen on Australian Native Plants Society (Australia).

These documents explain the reasons for the change on Florabase Why Dryandras have changed their name andWhy names change.

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.

See some of these wildflower in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.

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Drosera stolonifera, Leafy Sundew (above)

A tiny Drosera plant with red tentacles around red lamina (modified leaves) which create the insect catchers. These circular stickers have a broken circle (above right) and can look heart shaped. White five petalled flowers with yellow stamens, with multiple flowers per stem.

Spring

Bridgetown, and occurs over a through the South West, western Great Southern, and western Mid West regions, with some recorded from the Wheatbelt.

Drosera subhirtella, Sunny Rainbow (at right)

Delicate flowers with five petals in a soft lemon yellow colour, in a small cluster at top of stem. Style consists of branching filaments surrounding each stamen. Stems and buds are hairy. Circular lamina. Plant sprawls across other vegetation and grows to 400 millimetres.

Spring

Tonebridge (Boyup Brook), favouring winter wet areas and margins of swamps. Found through the Wheatbelt and into the adjacent South West and Great Southern regions, with occurrences in the Goldfields around Esperance, Ravensthorpe and Coolgardie

Drummondita hassellii (formerly also known as Drummondita hassellii var. hassellii and previously Philotheca hassellii 2013), Rainbow bush

A tubular flower that stands up like a candle. Sepals are green, petals can be red, green or yellow, stamens protrude from the flower tube with the exposed upper third covered with white silky hairs. The red stigma and top of the style protrude further. All flower parts may redden with age. Foliage short thick succulent leaves with tiny bumps crowded up the stems, a rounded end is tipped with a small spine (mucro). In some areas, leaves are longer and finer, tuberculate (with small bumps) and terminate in a point with a spine.

August

Moorine Rock, Shire of Yilgarn in the eastern Wheatbelt region, Western Australia. Found through the Wheatbelt and Great Southern, and into the Mid West and Goldfields regions. Favours yellow sand.

Dysphania kalpari, Rat's Tail, Green Crumbweed

Tiny cream stigmas and anthers can barely be seen protruding from the bobbly green flowers along the stems, which grow upright from prostrate stems with serrated foliage.

August

Agnew, Shire of Leonora, Goldfields region, Western Australia and can be found through the Pilbara and Goldfields, as well as in other states in semi-arid inland areas.