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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.

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Lechenaultia biloba, Blue Leschenaultia (above, at right and below)

A vivid mid-blue, although shades can vary according to soil types. May or may not have white in centre. Five petals with three large and two small, crinkly appearance due to shape and colouration of petals. Width of petals and frilliness can also vary. Grows in large groups, giving a sea of blue. A low growing bushy plant with prolific flowers.
September to November
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and found through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern regions

Lechenaultia linarioides Yellow Leschenaultia
Yellow and peach Lechenaultia flowers on a shrub of around a metre in height.
Spring
Lancelin and Port Gregory in the Mid West, and found in the coastal strip from Shark Bay to Perth, Western Australia

Why Lechenaultia not Leschenaultia?

This Genus is named for the botanist attached to the Baudin expedition to Australia, Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. Robert Brown had met Leschenault and assumed to spell his name the French way without the 's'. However, Bentham introduced the German spelling with the 's' and subsequent writers followed suit as the name was written Leschenaultia, but reverted to Robert Brown's spelling in the 1950s. The common names of the species maintain the 's' as Leschenaultia. Ref:Wikipedia

Leptoceras menziesii, Rabbit Orchid

A small orchid with two white downward pointing petals, a pink topped petal shielding the labellum, and two narrow upright dark maroon antenna-like petals forming the "rabbit ears"

September/October

Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and found through the through the south west corner of the state between Lancelin and Albany, Great Southern, Perth and Wheatbelt regions, and along the south coast to Esperance.

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Lepidosperma gladiatum, Coast Sword-sedge, Sword Rush, Kerbin, Kerbein, Gerbion.

A tall growing sedge, with flat sword-like foliage. Large flower heads are covered with small cream flowers with slender spidery petals.

March

Albany, Great Southern Region, Western Australia and occurs near the coast along creek lines and in winter wetlands. Found around the coast from Kalbarri to Cocklebiddy (east of Esperance)

Lepidosperma tenue, Sedge

A reed-like plant with round foliage. Medium slender heads branching with cream three slender petaled flowers along the branches

March April

Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and occurs from north of Geraldton to east of Esperance, through the Mid West, Wheatbelt regions, with scattered occurrences through the South West and Great Southern regions, and close to the south coast around Esperance.

Lepidosperma squamatum, Sedge

A medium growing sedge, with flat sword-like stems and foliage. Large flower heads are covered with small yellow flowers with slender spidery petals.

March

Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and occurs from north of Geraldton to east of Esperance, throughout the South West, the Perth region, the lower Great Southern with scattered occurrences in the Wheatbelt. Favours sandy and seasonally wet areas.