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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 was seen, 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.

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Keraudrenia is now known as Seringia and can be seen under S

Kunzea pulchella Granite Kunzea

Usually bright red, with a fluffy flower which has one stamen, on a small shrub. White variation at right seen north of Coolgardie.

Spring

Talgomine Rock near Nungarin in the Wheatbelt region Western Australia and occurs on and near granite outcrops throughout the Wheatbelt and into the Goldfields

Kunzea glabrescens, Spearwood and Kunzea ericifolia is very similar

A tall growing shrub with upright branches (these have been pulled down to photograph). Old cones alongside developing flowers at right.

Spring

Bridgetown, South West region Western Australia and occurs in the South West and adjacent wheatbelt, around Perth, the coastline north to Cervantes, and in the lower Great Southern to Albany.

Kingia australis, Bullanock, Bullonock, Waiyu, Kingia. Kingia australis is the only Kingia in the genus

A grass tree which grows tall and slender with blackened trunk, and has needle like leave similar to Xanthorrhoea. Flowers come as a cluster of pompoms. The photo above shows rapid regeneration with a mass of flowers after a severe wildfire. Kingias can grow to six metres in height.

Photo of developing flowers taken in March but they usually flower in winter

Northcliffe (above), South West region, Western Australia, and found in areas in the coastal strip from Albany to Perth, with occasional colonies being found further north. At left shows the silvery young foliage of the slender Kingias of the south coast

Kunzea micrantha

A small shrub which grows to 1.5 to 2 metres. Rounded cluster blooms on the ends of the stems, mostly pink but can vary to white or purple. Elongated small oval leaves alternating along the stems, with just some curving back.
Similar to Kunzea recurva which has broader and recurving foliage.

October November

Seen at Tonebridge and Heartlea, Boyup Brook shire, and near Yornup in the southern Bridgetown-Greenbushes shire, South West region, Western Australia. Favouring, winter wet depressions, found in areas mostly westwards if a line from Geraldton to Albany with occurrences in adjacent parts of the Wheatbelt and along the south coastal strip to Ravensthorpe.

Kunzea baxteri, Baxters Kunzea, Crimson Kunzea, Scarlet Kunzea

A red bottlebrush flower on a shrub which can reach four metres in height. Fine elongated leaves are a soft bluish green

Spring although can flower in other months

Found in bushland well outside the original area, probably from dumping of garden prunings in the bush. Occurs naturally mainly near the south coast around Esperance, southern Goldfields region, Western Australia, but garden plantings and subsequent escape has probably distributed to it being found in many other areas.

Kunzea recurva

There are a number of natural hybrids from Kunzea recurva crossed with other species.

Rounded cluster blooms on the ends of the stems, mostly pink but can vary to white or purple. Leaves alternating along the stems are heart shaped, or egg shaped to a point which curves back. Leave stems are very short. Shrubs are mostly short but can reach two metres.

Similar to Kunzea micrantha.
December and can flower from August through to December.

Seen at Northcliffe, and found from Bindoon north of Perth, through the Perth Peel region, the South West and Great Southern, in parts of the south west Wheatbelt, and into the south western Goldfields in the Fitzgerald River national park near Ravensthorpe.