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 flowered, 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.
Stylidium tenue
Very small pink triggerplant flowers up a stem from a very fine leafed aqua-green rosette. Two upper petals on
the flowers are pointing apart. "Wheel spokes" on the flower stems. Note the trigger has a dark coloured tip.
October
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and occurs around Perth, through the South West and lower Great Southern
regions
Stylidium schoenoides, Cow Kicks, Triggerplant, Jumping Jacks
The largest Trigger plant flowers, this low growing plant with reed like
leaves produces a cluster of cream colour trigger flowers on short stems. Photo above left shows smaller yellow flowers; these
are just opening and have their upper petals wide apart, whereas when fully open, they curl around to meet. Note the pattern
on the under side of the flower above right
October
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and occurs throughout the South
West, Great Southern and Wheatbelt, and range extends north of Perth to Jurien
Stylidium spathulatum, Creamy Triggerplant
Small Triggerplant flowers up a stem from a rosette of leaves. Yellow flowers with
red lines towards the bright yellow centre. Flowers similar to Stylidium ciliatum which lacks the markings of Stylidium
spathulatum. Broad elongated leave make up the straggly rosette.
October
Bridgetown, South West region, Western Australia and occurs
across the lower South West and lower Great Southern regions
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Stylidium uniflorum
Tiny peachy-pink trigger flowers with red markings near a yellow coloured centre, on a low growing plant
with pointed leaves. Four petals, with two being longer, giving a butterfly shape
October
Mayanup (Boyup Brook area), South
West Region, Western Australia and occurs in the Great Southern, southern Wheatbelt, and through the South West regions
Stylidium repens, Matted Triggerplant
Tiny white or pink triggerplant flowers with a purple dot on each petal near the centre
of the flower. Foliage in small bunches of needle-like leaves along the spreading stems
March, but can be found flowering
many months of the year.
Denmark, Great Southern region, Western Australia and is south west of a line between Shark Bay, Kalgoorlie
to east of Esperance, particularly near the coast and through the South West region
Stylidium scandens, Climbing Triggerplant
Small pink triggerplant flowers with serrated edges, grouped in a small tower at the end
the stem. Foliage consist of a rosette of fine elongated leaves the curl at the tip. This rosette is repeated at intervals
along the stems. The curls help the plant hook onto other vegetation is sprawls over, giving rise to the name Clinging Triggerplant. The specimen here was low to the ground with no vegetation close by to climb over.
November
Bridgetown, South West region, Western
Australia and occurs aroid the coastal strip from Busselton to Bremer Bay.
