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Sources used for identification of wildflowers including Aboriginal names shown on these pages, and regions where they occur, are listed under 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 was seen, 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 wildflowers in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.

Home > Lists and Links > Nature in Australia > Alphabetical Wildflower Index > Wildflowers G-1b

Gastrolobium praemorsum, (formerly Brachysema praemorsum prior to 2002), sold in garden nurseries as Brown Butterfly or Bronze Butterfly (member of the large Pea family Fabaceae)

A red beak shaped flower from a sprawling ground level shrub, with shield shaped leaves. Leaves are opposite.

October

Mayanup area (Boyup Brook Shire) and occurs through the Great Southern, parts of the South West and Perth regions

Gastrolobium spinosum, Prickly Poison

A yellow and red pea flower, with fine red stripes on the rear of the banner (sail). Slight indention at top of banner. Shrub has large, stiff and very spiny edged leaves. Photos here show a variety of leaf types.

Leaves are opposite.

November

Photos above at Dragon Rocks Nature Reserve, Newdegate, and photo at right from Kulin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia. Occurs from Geraldton to Esperance, throughout the Mid West, South West, Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions and into the Goldfields

Gastrolobium spinosum is one of the poison plants that has high levels of Fluoroacetate, synthesized as Sodium Monofluoroacetate known as 1080 poison. Native animals in the south west have a tolerance to 1080 whereas feral vermin such as cats and foxes do not, so 1080 bating is used for pest control.

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Gastrolobium trilobum (formerly Gastrolobium spinosum var. trilobum 2010), Bullock Poison

Yellow or orange pea flowers with red central markings and a red keel. A large bush with a leave divided into three with the central portion being long, and each section terminating with a spike. Leaves are opposite.

October

Boyup Brook, South West region, Western Australia, and found into the Mid West at Three Springs, through the Wheatbelt, into parts of the South West regions.

Gastrolobium parvifolium, Berry Poison, Small-Leaved Gastrolobium, Small-Leaved Poison-Pea, Small-Leaved Butterfly-Pea

Yellow orange and red pea flowers on a spindly and spreading small shrub, with short narrow leaves. Leaves are opposite.

August

Wongan Hills in the Wongan-Ballidu shire, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and can be found through the inland Wheatbelt from Wongan Hills to Kukerin (Dumbleyung shire) and east to Westonia.