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Home > Lists and Links > Nature in Australia > Alphabetical Wildflower Index > Wildflowers H-2b

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 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 wildflower in larger sized photos on our Flickr pages.

Hemigenia teretiuscula

A tubular elongated mauve flower with six petals, with darker dots near centre. Two semi-fused petals point up, two point down and a larger semi split petal at the bottom. Small very narrow leaves.

September

Near Peak Charles National Park, Western Australia. Found mainly in the southern Goldfields region, extending into the adjacent Great Southern and Wheatbelt regions.

Hemiandra pungens Snakebush

A low growing plant or creeper with white, pink or mauve flowers with purple dots near centre. An elongated tubular flower with five petals; two semi-fused point up, two point down and a larger semi split petal at the bottom. Shrub form has minimal or no hairiness. Prostrate form usually has hairy sharp pointed leaves. The latter form has been named in some publications as Hemiandra pungens var. hispida. Seed pods forming in photo above right

Spring

Above left at Cordering and above right at Bridgetown, and found near the coastline from Kalbarri to Hopetoun and through the South West and Great Southern regions, extending into parts of the Wheatbelt. Prostrate form usually found to the south of Perth.

Yellow flowers in the picture above left are Conostylis aculeata

Hemiandra linearis Speckled Snakebush

Pink or mauve flowers with purple dots near centre on a small shrub with needle like leaves. An elongated tubular flower with five petals; two semi-fused point up, two point down and a larger semi split petal at the bottom

Spring

Lancelin, and found near the coastline from Dongara to Perth and scattered occurences through the South West and Great Southern regions to Albany

Hemigenia incana, Silky Hemigenia

A tubular elongated mauve flower with five petals, with purple dots near centre; two semi-fused petals point up, two point down and a larger semi split petal at the bottom. The elliptical leaves on these small shrubs photographed have a slight indent along each side of the leaf. Hemigenia flowers are similar and related to Hemiandria, Snakebush species

December January

Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia, and found through the Wheatbelt, Perth, South West and Great Southern regions

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Hemigenia botryphylla (formerly Hemigenia sp. Pindar, and Hemigenia sp. Jibberding 2008)

A pink or white tubular elongated flower with six petals, with darker dots near centre. Two semi-fused petals point up, two point down and a larger semi split petal at the bottom. Short narrow leaves are opposite, curve slightly back, and fold up a little from the midrib.

August

Gutha, Shire of Morawa, Mid West region, Western Australia. Found in the Mid West and into the northern Wheatbelt, and extending east into the northern Goldfields region.