This gorgeous flower only lasts a few hours. Known as silky purple flag (Patersonia sericea), it's endemic to eastern Australia. Took this photo earlier this arvo, so by now it will have faded.💜 #FlowerReport#OzPlants#WildOz

Pink Enamel Orchids (Elythranthera emarginata) enjoying the spring sunshine #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿

A time for Dragons 🐉 The Common Dragon Orchid (Caladenia barbarossa) with its hairy labellum designed to dupe male thynnid wasps into pollinating the orchid #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿

Flowering at different rates (aren't we all?!). Broad-leaved drumstick (Isopogon anemonifolius), spotted on two separate sections of bush track last weekend. Native to eastern NSW. #ozplants#wildoz

Always a happy sight, the first of the spring flannel flowers (Actinotus helianthi). The flowers are actually in the centre, and what surrounds them are petal-like bracts. A petal by any other name, etc! Just as lovely. Found mostly in coastal areas of NSW.🌱🌸 #FlowerReport#ozplants#wildoz

One of the beautiful feather flowers that is endemic to the south west of WA and which grows in lateritic soils in the #PerthHills#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz#myrtle#Myrtaceae 🌿

The Sugar Orchid (Ericksonella saccharata) is endemic to WA and was named after the sugary white appearance of its flowers #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿

They might be a common sight in south west WA at the minute, but its hard to walk past a bunch of Cowslip Orchids (Caladenia flava) when they’re this bright and beautiful #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿

A Rusty Spider Orchid (Caladenia ferruginea) with its rusty coloured flowers and heavily clubbed sepals #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿

Recently learnt that a shrub growing close to home exists nowhere else on earth! It's the Sublime Point pomaderris (Pomaderris adnata). Buds photo from early July; flowers this week. Brilliant work underway (info signs, seed banks, ex-situ plant-raising) to save it from extinction. #ozplants#wildoz