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#Grevillea wilsonii #Proteaceae! A common site around many areas of the Jarrah Forest, this species was in full bloom around Mt Cooke, from what I read this species doesn’t seem to have a great seed set even though it produces a fair number of flowers!

#Hemiandra pungens #Lamiaceae looking pungent as usual! Don’t walk barefoot near these! 🐍🌳

My lunch break became a little extended 😅 getting back into practing my line work, been a while!

Tiny little annual #Levenhookia stipitata #Stylidiaceae, the common #Stylewort! Now I know it’s for its floral morphology but I like to think this genus got style! They come out en masse! Soo many!

The granite outcrop specialist! #Spiculaea ciliata! Most of the moss beds have dried up, but these tough orchids are flowering up a storm on Mt Cooke! Living off their succulent flower stems! #Orchidaceae

A species of #Lomandra that I can’t ID! Any Lomandra experts out there that could help? Found around Mt Cooke. I think it’s possibly L. integra? 🧐🌱 #Asparagaceae

Sketchin #Hakea baxteri today!

While there are a lot of plants in the #Haloragaceae family that are aquatic herbs #Glischrocaryon aureum is living its best life on land. Australia contains many of the species within the family, both aquatic and terrestrial representatives!

Todays sketch #Banksia coccinea Leaf #Proteaceae

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#Thysanotus tenellus #Asparagaceae The grassy Fringe Lilly! This genus has a variety of growth forms but all have these flowers with three prominent fringed tepals which give them the name. They are only short lived flowers, but most open sequentially!

Potentially #Siloxerus humifusus or S. filifolius, but looks like I would need to check fruits under a microscope! Both look very similar to each other and grow in the same area! They are such a Strange #Asteraceae!

#Centrolepis aristata #Restionaceae (#Centrolepidaceae) this is a very widespread species where it can easily be found on granite outcrops and wet areas! This little stream running down Mt Cooke was perfect habitat for it!!

Check it out the first part of my Pilostyles research is out 😍! Australian Journal of Botany . Applying resource-selection functions to assess host preference in the endemic endoparasite Pilostyles hamiltoniorum (Apodanthaceae) and its principal host Daviesia (Fabaceae) publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24026

#Calothamnus rupestris #Myrtaceae Growing halfway up Mt Cooke, on a granite slope, living up to its name rupestris (of rocks)

#Isotoma hypocrateriformis #Campanulaceae, a common species throughout the south west and can be found in a variety of colors, they come up as a single stem of leaves germinating with its sequentially flowered inflorescence! They are also soo reflectively white they look flat

#Podolepis gracilis #Asteraceae, A slender annual herb found commonly throughout the southwest, this was the only one still in flower at the spot I found them in on the slope of Mt Cooke

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