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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 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.
 
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Home > Lists and Links > Nature in Australia > Alphabetical Wildflower Index > Wildflowers L-6
Lyperanthus serratus Rattle Beak Orchid, Rattle Beaks, Car
Red stripe down yellow petals, with green hoods on each flower, orchid, several flowers along upright stem from a single long leaf.  Fluffy white labellum with reddish calli along the top. Flower above right showing more red as it fades
Spring
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia occurs throughout the South West, into the Wheatbelt and Great Southern and along the coast from north of Perth to the Esperance area
 
 
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Luzula meridionalis, Field Woodrush
Tiny green and brown flowers on a rush-like plant with hairiness along edges of foliage.   
August September
Bridgetown, and grows through the South West, south coast, and Perth environs. 
 
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Below shows leaf with developing bud, which comes from the matt surfaced side of the long ribbed leaf.  The other side is shining and curved outwards. 
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Lyginia imberbis

A sedge with male and female plants, each with flowers at the top of round reed like stems.  Pink anthers on the female flowers, with the male flowers being the more complex.  The name imberbis (meaning beardless) refers to the sparser cilia on the sheaths and spathes, compared with the similar Lyginia barbata.

December

Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and can be found through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Perth, South West, and Great Southern regions, and along the south coast to the east of Esperance, preferring sandy winter wet areas.

 

Lyginia barbata (not photographed) is similar, with differences being cilia on the sheaths and spathes, (with the name barbata meaning bearded). 

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Lycium australe, Australian Boxthorn

A woody shrub that can grow to 2.5 metres in height, with long sharp spines along the stems. Tiny four or five petalled white flowers tending to pink or lilac towards the centre.  Foliage consist of elongated succulent leaves which widen towards the rounded tip.   

Lake Douglas, Kalgoorlie, Goldfields region, Western Australia.  Found in the Gascoyne region around Shark Bay, parts of the Mid West, through the inland Wheatbelt and into the Great Southern, and in the Goldfields, including all along the south coast.  Also found in other states.  Favours the edges of salt lakes and claypans.