Wildflowers

Western Australia is renowned for its wildflowers and after good winter rains Shark Bay can produce wildflower displays like nowhere else in Australia. Carpets of everlasting daisies bloom in late winter and early spring bringing the bush to life. Check out areas between the Overlander Roadhouse and Hamelin Station for the best displays between August and October.

In the coastal heath areas the flowers are less prominent but no less impressive – Shark Bay daisies twine over small bushes and the Tamala Rose adds flashes of pink to the vegetation. The yellow tufts of acacias are littered throughout the shrubland and Eremophilas add red and mauve to the landscape.

The pink cluster everlasting

(Schoenia cassiniana) forms carpets of pink after

good winter rains.

The Shark Bay daisy (Pembertonia latisquamea) climbs over shrubs

and displays its pink flowers

during winter and spring.

Pompom heads (Cephalipterum drummondi) form impressive

carpets of yellow and white.

The small parakeelya (Calandrinia sp.) has almost flourescent mauve flowers and can be found in small clusters and occasionally in impressive masses.

Flowering for much of the year

the flannel bush (Solanum lasiophyllum) can be found

in most areas of Shark Bay.

The fringed lily (Thysanotus manglesianus) is a leafless herb found over much of SW

Western Australia.

Eremophila glabra is an arid

bush that is a favourite with

nectar eating birds.

The ragged- leaved fanflower (Scaevola tomentosa) is unlike most others scaevolas in having yellow / orange flowers rather than blue or white ones . It can be found

on sandy soils or in areas of limestone.

Fields of Swainsona pterostylis (foreground) with Pompom

heads (Cephalipterum drummondi) in the background.