Wildflowers of WA (part 1)

My first exposure to WA's wonderful wildflowers was shown in Karijini National Park. They were every where, looking beautiful against the rich brown / red earth in this iron ore rich country. They also looked quite spectacular against the back drop on rolling hills, deep gorges, spinifex grass & white snappy gum trees. It's a wonder plants grow at all as the rainfall isn't that great either - usually. Early 2011 had a wetter season than normal & so the flowers were more prolific.

I don't have a name for many of the flowers & I will update names if I find 1 - if you know a flower name please feel free to let me know :)

 The white snappy gum trees were every where & looked spectacular against the rich red earth

 This was our back door from the van views for 3 lovely days.
I had my 55th birthday in Karijini, & wouldn't have wanted to spend it anywhere else (around that time) it was that pleasurable to drive through despite the dusty dirt roads :)

 The purple Royal  Mulla Mulla here is a little different from the tall cousin -

The tall Mulla Mulla was growing every where - as far south as Exmouth region

 I think these little bundles are mini versions of the Mulla Mulla flower

 Grevillea plant that wasn't very bushy

 I saw lots of this white bush around Karijini & it looked stunning against the red earth - I saw it in many places including on ledges with in the escarpments of the gorges

 I think this is the Turkey Bush. This was quite prolific in northern WA & NT

 Blue pincushion

 The candle stick cassia

 Butterfly bush

 Even reed grasses had flowers

 Camel Bush

 Found near Mt Nameless @ Tom Price

 I have no idea what this flower is, but it has a waxy appearance

 Sturt's Desert Pea growing @ Millstream National Pk homestead, south of Karratha

 The Bird flower - an unusual flower & colour

 White Dragon Tree looked really graceful & was a great perfume

 Desert Hibiscus

 another Desert Hibiscus

 Found this stuff a lot of places as well - looks like a white lambs tail

 this flower looked like Mulla Mulla, but was prostrate with a round ball

 small purple flower growing next to water stream

another purple flower :)) I've seen several colours of this shape flower

 Cork wood has a grevillea like flower

 stark contrast against the broken rocks on a walk eastern Millstream

 even weeds have flowers - a prickly burr I think

 found near Exmouth & Cape Range national Pk

 ?? Acacia- wattle

 Tall Mulla Mulla covering this sandy slope between Ningaloo Reef & Cape Range National Pk looked pretty

found this growing @ Coral Bay - some type of succulent with dew drops that are permanent on the stems & leaves

more of that white lambs tail  bush was covering a small sandy slope next to the beach @ Coral Bay

I found this plant growing amongst the rocks with little soil at Point Quobba

this parakeelya was found growing north to Dampier & so far as south as Lessuer National Park.

I think this looks like an orchid, but have no idea what it is

Francois Peron National Pk was covered in wildflower bushes like this 1. It was beautiful driving the 50km sandy track to see the peninsular tip of Cape Peron

 Unfortunately I only took a couple of pics of flowers in Francois Peron National Park.

part 2 coming soon, as I have probably more than enough pics for the Kalbarri area & just south to Jurien Bay on the coast  & north east to Morawa, which is covered in flowers