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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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Euryomyrtus leptospermoides (formerly Baeckea leptospermoides 2001)

Five petalled blossoms, white with pink tinges, a dark red centre, and up to 23 stamens of varying lengths with the five longest each being central to each of the petals.  Foliage consists of thick oval leaves that have darker green speckles on them, with leaves opposite and a further pair of leaves at right angles alternating along the stems.   

August

Merredin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and found through the central Wheatbelt from Wialki to Lake King, and into the adjacent western edge of the Goldfields. 

Euryomyrtus maidenii (formerly Baeckea maidenii 2001)

Five petalled pastel pink blossoms with a dark red centre.  Ten stamens. Foliage consists of tiny thick concave oval leaves that have darker green speckles on them held upward towards the stem, with leaves opposite and a further pair of leaves at right angles alternating all the way up the stems.  

August

Photographed at Moorine Rock, Shire of Yilgarn in the eastern Wheatbelt region and Woolgangie, Shire of Coolgardie, Goldfields region, Western Australia. Grows through inland Wheatbelt, into adjacent parts of the Mid West, and into Goldfields regions. 

Exocarpos aphyllus, Leafless Ballart, Leafless Cherry, Chuk, Dtulya

A hemiparasitic (that is partially parasitic, being able to produce its own chlorophyll) leafless shrub with strongly ribbed thick and stiff green branching stems.  Shrubs can reach up to five metres in height.  Flowers are not open in these photos. Flowers are in clusters of very tiny six petalled yellow star-shaped flowers. The red cherry-like part is not really the fruit, but a thickening of the flower stem which develops at the seed ripens, but it is edible and favoured by birds which swallow the seed as well, thus aiding distribution and germination.  The seed sits above this red band, so appears to be outside the fruit. 

August, with fruit and buds but no open flowers seen.

Westonia in the Wheatbelt region, and can be found around Exmouth, from Carnarvon in the Gascoyne region, and throughout the Mid West, inland Wheatbelt, and Goldfields regions.   
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Euchiton sphaericus, (formerly Gnaphalium sphaericum), Star cudweed, Japanese Cudweed, Annual Cudweed. 

A small plant with elongated narrow foliage.  Flower is a small pompom in a dull green colour. 
October November

Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and found around the coast between Geraldton and Albany, and near the coast around Esperance. Also in scattered locations through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields regions.   

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