Plant identification in the Flinders Ranges

In September 2015 we made the long drive to the Flinders Ranges from Healesville, Victoria. Apart from walking up various ancient rocky mountains and enjoying the amazing vistas we also took some photos of some of the tough native plants that were in flower.

Acacia beckleri - near the summit of St Marys Peak

Acacia continua - Mt Remarkable range

Alyogyne huegelii - Mt Remarkable range

Billardiera versicolor - Mt Remarkable range

Calytrix tetragona - Rawnsley Bluff

Cheilanthes lasiophylla (yes, I know it's a fern and it does not have flowers, however, I was pretty excited to find a colony growing on a rocky ridge on the way up an un-tracked spur in the Elder range.)

Dampiera dysantha - Mt Remarkable range

Eremophila alternifolia - Bunyeroo Gorge

Eutaxia microphylla - on a windswept saddle high on the Elder Range

Grevillea aspera - near the summit of Mt Ohlssen-Bagge

Grevillea lavandulacea - Mt Remarkable range

Giant River Red gums are common along creek lines all through the Flinders Ranges

Hibbertia riparia - Mt Remarkable range

Hovea purpurea - Mt Remarkable range

Olearia pannosa - Mt Remarkable range

Prostanthera striatifolia - high on a ridge of the Elder range

A view high up on the Heysen Range framed by Eucalyptus socialis trees. Ptilotus obovatus is the small white plant in the foreground.

Ptilotus obovatus - widespread on dry hills and rocky plains in the Flinders ranges - this plant was high up on the Heysen Range

Senna artemisoides - Elder Ranges in the background

Sida calyxhymenia - Bunyeroo Gorge

A view from the Bunyeroo circuit with the grey leaved Ptilotus obovatus in the foreground, yellow flowered Senna artemisiodes and white cypress pine (Callitris glaucophylla) in the background.

Solanum quadriloculatum - widespread in open plain country and as an understorey plant in light woodland

Thelymitra aristata - Mt Remarkable range

Thysantos baueri - Mt Remarkable range

Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata - widespread