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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The ever so cheery Rhodanthe citrina! A common small yellow everlasting named for its inflorescence colour! It’s also covered in cottony hairs that are also a defining feature, along with its beaked cypsela! Widespread with a fondness for sand

Rhodanthe citrina inflorescence, bight yellow bracts surrounding a head of deeper yellow flowers and buds

Group of Rhodanthe citrina inflorescences, bight yellow bracts surrounding a head of deeper yellow flowers and buds

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lawrencella rosea is one of the many Everlastings that pop up in WA during the wildflower peak, and can paint sections of the ground in pink from a distance. When the fruits mature the involucral bracts open up to release the fruit and turn into what looks like a skeletal flower!

Lawrencella rosea en masse, pink petal like bracts revolve around a central yellow capitula of small flowers

An individual Lawrencella rosea showing the pink bracts, that fade lighter at the base

Lawrencella rosea with a few yellow Rodanthes photobombing

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A few weeks ago we went to Tutanning Nature Reserve and what an amazing place! Get ready for some cool plants (I’m a bit behind but getting through my trips this year slowly!) 4 echidnas and many weird rare plants!

Low Proteaceae dominated shrubland with a single Drummonds Grasstree

A group of Drummond Grasstrees in the shrubland

Banksia and many little shrubs dominate this patch, the banksias are flowering just hidden!

An echidna trying to find food! In the Wandoo

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sooo many Drosera glanduligera! By now many have gone passed their best, but a stunning species when a larger group flower! I’m sure these ones used their snapping trichomes to eat all the bugs to fuel their flowering!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They are still going off! Found more this weekend, never ending!

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

Hibbertias are just a fan of yellow, and I’m a fan of them cause they are just a stand out in the bush! This one here is Hibbertia subvaginata, its leaves have a sheathing base to them, which the flowers come out of from the leaf axis, for which it gets its name from!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My not so miserable Conostylis misera 💁‍♂️

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can’t go through a WA spring without checking on the Isotropis cuneifolia flowers 💁‍♂️.This widespread pea is found in a variety of habitats, were it grows as a prostrate shrub. Its name come from its wedge shaped leaves, that also have a characteristic emarginate apex!

Isotropis cuneifolia flower, yellow standard with red base with central bottom yellow eyes, red wings keel obscured

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gompholobium scabrum wearing its usual shades of pink! This species is absolutely stunning it’s relatively large flowers and intense colour can be spotted from while away!

Gompholobium scabrum, light pink standard with darker pinkish red wings and keel coming out of the leaf axis

Gompholobium scabrum flowers up the stems of the plant, easy stem having spirally arranged thin leaves with recurved margins

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Back home, and oh I have soo many pics to go through, will eventually get to them! Some very exciting stuff was found! And what a beautiful part of the world 😍

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Scrambling through the swamps was plenty of this Andersonia sp. Amabile (N. Gibson & M. Lyons 355)! Well best fit from what I can find! It’s A low growing species just growing in in the strangest habit I have seen for this genus, even though they all have strange habits!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goodenia trinervis, a widespread species that can be found growing in wet areas like swamps, peats or creek line! These ones were growing in the roadside next to the peats!

Goodenia trinervis flower showing the yellow flower with dark red spot

Goodenia trinervis flower off to the side

Full plant showing a green roset of elliptical leaves that are finely toothed around the margins, and two inflorescences

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Giant male Aname sp. on the road to the car! Out to hopefully not be eaten by a female 😅

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Peas peas and more peas! This one here is Eutaxia epacridoides, a common, often swamp loving, species, that produce ericoid like leaves and a habit very reminiscent of our native ericaceae! It’s a spindly lax shrub that often arches over by the weight of the flowers!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Will do sundowner and all done then one and half more days of just casual botanising ahead!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes! North Walpole, soo many things in flower and soo many inverts! And amazing people too aha!

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

Oh wish they migrated here too! Missing out

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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 · 30/09/2026

I wonder what our WA Hypoxidaxeae seeds are like 🤔

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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 · 23/09/2026

Ooop yes yes it is 😅 thanks for that

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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

Yeah they are amazing! 😊 thank you

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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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