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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 14h

Walpole is just amazing!! Peats, Heaths, forests, just amazing overwhelmed by plants 😅 Soooo many pea!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Came across a bunch of Burchardia multiflora and some not being very multifloral, but they don’t always have to be. A widespread species, found in swamps, granites and near streams!

Burchardia multiflora flower showing 6 white petals and a red ovary, with 6 purple anthers some open releasing yellow pollen

Burchardia multiflora flower showing 6 white petals and a red ovary, with 6 purple anthers

Multiple flowered individual of Burchardia multiflora flower showing 6 white petals and a red ovary, with 6 purple anthers

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Melaleuca in the swamps! I’m thinking Melaleuca incana, but unsure. This group of them was growing directly in the water, which eventually will dry up over summer!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hiding amongst the rushes and sedges, blending in real well is something different! Soooo many Baxteria australis (Dasypogobaceae) in the Scott River Swamps of East Augusta! I know where to come to spot flowers later in the year!

Baxteria australis clump, strappy leaved rosettes, green, holding on to dead brown leaves at the base

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another roadside rarity! The Scott River Jugflower, Adenanthos detmoldii, a priority 4 species mostly confined to road sides around swampy habitats! This species can also hybridise with A. obovata! This hybrid often co-occurs with A. detmoldii, which I saw as we left, but didn’t have time to stop 🥲

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes the best things are hidden! This certainly is the case for Conostylis serrulata! Dense flower head of yellow start flowers hide within the foliage, which forms a dome like shape on some of the bigger specimens I saw!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hakea ceratophylla growin by the swamp! Such a cool looking species with its variably lobed leaves and rusty orange coloured blooms. A common species found in winter wet habitat and Granite outcrops, these were quite at home at the edge of the Scott River peat swamps

Hakea ceratophylla rusty orange 4 lobed flowers that curl around eachother as to not be able to clearly tell apart individual flowers

Hakea ceratophylla variably shaped leaves and degree of lobbing and teeth

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I could see this one from a while away it was so bright even on the gloomy day! Daviesia inflata, gets its name for its inflated fruit! It can be found in a variety of habitats, here growing in the peat swamps!

Daviesia inflata, bright vermilion orange flowers with a dark centre on a leafless plant, stem like phyllodes round in cross section make up for its leaflessness

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The one and only Melanostachya ustulata! A monotypic Rush found from Busselton to Albany growing in winter wet and permanently wet areas. They produce these large male spikelets most in two to three on each flowering culm and the female spikelet were a little smaller than the males, both in bloom!

Melanostachya ustulata male spikelets with anthers just opened and having released the pollen, these being a pale yellow colour with spikelets a blackish brown colour

Melanostachya ustulata with fresh anthers, which and dark purple at the apex graduating to a lighter purple at the base. This shot shows three spikelets showing the blackish brown tips to the flumes and a chestnut brown base

Female Melanostachya ustulata flower spike showing the fuzzy white stigmas

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rare Grevillea in a road side ditch, well a ditch that matches its preferred habitat at least 🤷🏻‍♂️ Grevillea papillosa, a Priority 3 species restricted to winter wet areas and swamps from Augusta to Nannup.

Grevillea papillosa, stems read with green leaves and small clusters of flowers with red bases that grade up to a white apex.

Many flowers with some of the red parts more obvious like the red styles

While many of the leaves are simple, they can have divided leaves, here the photo depicts a branch with some simple leaves and some leaves divided into 2 lobes!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What do you call an Ecdeiocolea monostachya dominated habitat 🤔 it’s not a sedge and not a rush but also not quite a grass but it is closely related 🤷🏻‍♂️ take its common name and call it a sedge-rush land 😅🤔

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Drosera glanduligera! The Pimpernel sundew is a very common annual reseeder rather than perennial or tuberous Drosera. It’s remarkable for its mobile fringe of trichomes that act like catapults, actively flicking prey into the center of its leaves! Last pick showing these up close!

Drosera glanduligera plants, small rosetted yellow green leaves covered in sticky trichomes

The fringe of mobile hairs, longer more prominent hairs around the leaf margin that lay on the ground

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All the flowers have open on my Podolepis aristata!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The not so nice smelling Spyridium globulosum, otherwise known as the Basket Bush! You can usually tell this one’s flowering by the smell 😅 hard to describe but not nice! But a magnet for flies and other insects.

Spyridium globulosum flowers upclose, dense beached cyme of small white flowers covered in white hairs with a pale yellowish green center

Spyridium globulosum flower on a smaller inflorescence amongst leaves

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came across this patch of Asterella drummondii (Aytoniaceae) producing sooooo many Sporophytes! This little liverwort is one of two species noted in WA and it’s quite common found throughout Australia. I find them often around granite outcrops or on the side of small creeks.

Asterella drummondii sporophytes, green mushroom shaped spore forming parts that have 4 downwards facing pores that spores disperse out of

Close up of the Asterella drummondii sporophyte

other patch of Asterella drummondii sporophytes, can see the small gameatophytes bellow

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stonecrop doing what Stonecrop do best, growing amongst the rocks, and producing a bumper crop of fruit! This is Crassula colorata, commonly called the Dense Stonecrop. A very widespread species that can be found in a variety of habitats, granite outcrops being one of them 💁‍♂️

Crassula colorata producing many fruit along its stem, leaves red elliptical in shape, fruit consisting of multiple locules that are white and come to an point at the style base

Crassula colorata growing in a crack in the a rock

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tribonanthes variabillis or australis, both grow in the area but need to be able to see the hairy stigma of T. varabilis 😅 looks overall a little more like T. Variabilis though! Saw them growing on clay soils around granite rocks quite close to the beach!

Close up of a Tribonanthes flower showing the 6 white hairy petals and whitish yellow anthers and yellow stigma

Close up of a Tribonanthes flower showing the 6 (one hidden behind another) white hairy petals and whitish yellow anthers and yellow stigma

Over all plant of Tribonanthes, showing a single leaf and inflorescence bract, 2-4 flowers, many other leaves out not flowering

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Logania vaginalis, found in coastal to near coastal area, expecially after some disturbance. This is a lax shrub with inflorescences of white flowers that give it the common name White Spray. We found this growing right near the coast, probably benefited from the fire a few years back!

White flowers of Logania vaginalis with dark green calyx that contrast strongly with each other

Showing the inflorescence structure of Logania vaginalis, branching multiple times

Another close up of the white flower with a green background

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Work in progress, Cym. Darch Ryan, will eventually do pen but one of many projects to add to the list to finish aha

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A species in one of my favourite native Rutaceae genera, Diplolaena dampieri, was just getting into bloom in Meelup! This species has a really lovely smelling essential oil (at least to me) and produces these stunning pendulous flowers!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another Anarthria, this time I’m pretty sure Anarthria laevis, both producing male flowers! Like most of the Anarthria species, this species loves winter wet situations, peats, and wetlands!

Make inflorescence of Anarthria laevis, green stem with two dense tufts of brown bracts with whiteish anthers bursting out of them

Another Anarthria laevis inflorescence showing more open flowers with many anthers projecting out of a many flowered inflorescence

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ferns in the forest, Lindsaea linearis, the screw fern,a small rhrizomatous fern, from what I can see on pressed specimens it’s new leave sort of spiral leaving the base of the leaves to have a twisted base so I’m guessing that why it’s named the screw fern otherwise it doesn’t look like a screw 🤷🏻‍♂️

A thin Lindsaea linearis leaf growing out of the leaf litter

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Prolific is in its name and prolific it is, Anarthria prolifera, a very floriforous Anarthria, producing tangled culms and flowers going every direction! Posted this individual before but still love this one!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Synaphea probably gracillima but with out a proper look at the stigma who knows 😅 growing through the wetland! Even if they are hard to ID I do love this genus such oddities and so bright!

Yellow Synaphea gracillima flowers on a long thin unbranched inflorescence

A cluster of Synaphea gracillima inflorescence

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Acacia stenoptera, one of the decurrent wing stemmed Wattles that is widespread and quite variable, these ones had small peduncles making the inflorescences looks as if they are just sitting there on the stems!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Commonly called the tangled smokebush, Conospermum flexuosum, is quite at home in the winter wet soils of this reserve, and always love seeing it in mass flower like this!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why stick with one leaf shape when you can have all 💁‍♂️ Hakea varia in fulll bloom in the swamp! A common southwest Hakea that likes to grow in seasonally wet flats! Variable leaf shape also means variable number of spiky points on leaves 😅

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lagenophora, features for IDs for this genus either require Achenes or a plant to be pulled up so was not going to do that 😅 there are 2 species in the area and not sure but this could be L. huegleii as it’s very widespread 🤷🏻‍♂️ found these growing in a more forested away for the swampy shrubland

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So many cheery yellow Hibbertias about atm, this one is Hibbertia ferruginea, found growing in woodlands and Sandy Heaths of the southwest, it is characterised by its 15 anthers, in 5 groups of 3, around the Carpels, and the rusty coloured hairs on its sepals for which it’s named for!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ran out of ink and the new pen ruined the hair consistency 🥲😅 so saved this bit but gotta retrace the bigger image 🥲

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My Podolepis aristata has its first inflorescence open!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not the only Pea in the swamp but this is the one and only monotypic Swamp pea, Euchilopsis linearis! This species while looking like a regular pea has something odd going on with its Calyx, fused into two round lobes instead of the regular 5 lobes.

Close up of Euchilopsis linearis flower with yellow standard with red markings, and red wing petals

Euchilopsis linearis hiding amongst shrubs

Far shot showing Euchilopsis linearis in the vegetation

Euchilopsis linearis shown as a sparse open prostrate shrub thanks to its thin stems and leaves

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The ever so showy Adenanthos obovatus! A lover of winter wet swamps, this specie of jug flower Puts on amazing displays of flowers that attract birds, in particular the Western Spinebills, but also Other honeyeaters like New Hollands and Brown honeyeaters!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Grevillea brachystylis subsp. brachystylis, a Priority 3 species around the Busselton and Margret River region favouring seasonally wet areas, and at this location, it loves growing in a dense sedgeland filled with sedges rushes grasses and other strap leaves monocots and small shrubs!

Grevillea brachystylis subsp. brachystylis close up of a inflorescence showing the hairy red flowers and thin lance shaped leaves

Another close up of Grevillea brachystylis subsp. brachystylis

Wide shot of Grevillea brachystylis subsp. brachystylis showing multiple inflorescences

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Acacia flagelliformis, a Priority species growing from Yarloop to Margret River, it is found in seasonally wet areas, which is excatly the kinda swampy wetland situation we found them in! Last time I saw these they were in bud, now they are in full bloom!

Acacia flagelliformis in mass flower growing in a winter wet wetland

Acacia flagelliformis flowers forming on the leafless reed like stem of the plant, out of flower they blend in with the grass really well

Close up of the relatively large globular inflorescence of Acacia flagelliformis, its vibrant canary yellow flowers glowing in the sunlight!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love it when Stirlingia latifolia flower they just very odd flowers for a Proteaceae, at first glance at least! They also have a unique root form, bubble roots, starch deposits build up along the roots thickening it and giving the roots a bubble wrap like appearance!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stenocarpus stenocarpoides Can be easy to miss if you don’t look carefully mostly due its green flowers! This odd member of the firewheel tree genus is not as showy as it eastern states species, but it does make up for it for its strange green flowers to me! Kinda look like a bunch of insects!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Patersonia umbrosa var. xanthina, this species has two varieties, yellow and purple, they can both co occur but var. umbrosa is found further south than this population in Ambergate! I was there at the right time to see quite a few of th flowering at the some time, they are just so eye catching 😍

Patersonia umbrosa var. xanthina showing its big yellow three petalled flowers

Wider shot of Patersonia umbrosa var. xanthina

Two Patersonia umbrosa var. xanthina, wide shot showing the plants blending in to the other plants around so the flowers look as if they are floating

Side on view of Patersonia umbrosa var. xanthina flower showing the stigma and anthers

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gastrolobium parviflorum just erupting in flowers! Well only this one, all of the other plants of this species in the area were still in bud! Commonly called the Box Poison, this small shrub is native to a wide region of Western Australia! We spotted them growing through most of the reserve.

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The first Macropidia fuliginosa flower to open 😍

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Named for its habit of growing on rocky outcrops it’s no surprise Calothamnus rupestris was growing and flowering on Boyagin Rock! So hardy there was a seedling growing out of a tiny crack in the rock! Commonly called Mouse ears due to the persistant Calyx lobes that somewhat look like mouse ears.

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Many of the Granite outcrops of the southern regions of WA can be home to Pulchrocladia ferdinandii, an incredibly structured Lichen that grow on the moss beds and under shrubs of the outcrops! I wonder what evolutionary pressures, the outcrops cause this growth habit?

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Goodeniaceae of the garden! Work in progress, just have one more Damipera waiting to bloom!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Trying to get drawing of my plants down before the season ends ahaha so many things to draw so little time!

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

More wildflowers near Roxby Downs.

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Based on locality and leaf shape possibly Synaphea flabelliformis. These small shrubs are a diverse group, tho some cryptically so, with many looking at first glance very similar to each other! They also have the wonderful feature of Ballistic pollination and that’s just very cool in my opinion!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gonna be doin this for a while 😅

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gastrolobium latifolium, a ground covering bird pollinated Pea that has highly modified pea flowers with reduced standard and elongated wing and keel to form a tube shaped flowers! My partner tho thought I was drawing a chillie 😂🌶️

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mesomelaena preissii was in full flower! These are quite a showy Sedge when in full bloom! We can accross this one near the road in to Boyagin Rock, growing amongst other sedges and small shrubs, just before we hit some Wandoo where the vegetation thinned out a bit more

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