This album comprises a diversity of woody and climbing plant species that typically grow to less than 2 m high. It does NOT include plants from the albums: WATTLES and PEAS, HERBS, Dampieras and Goodenias (GOODENIACEAE), ORCHIDS, Grevilleas and Hakeas (PROTEACEAE), Myrtles and Waxes (MYRTACEAE), and EREMOPHILAS. The plant species in this album are plants that don't die back each year.
APIACEAE Platysace trachymenioidesPlatysace trachymenioides is a shrub that can grow up to 1 m high. It occurs mostly inland in a band from Shark Bay to Esperance.
APIACEAE Platysace trachymenioidesPlatysace trachymenioides has bright brown stems and leaves and small white flowers.
ASTERACEAE Olearia muelleriGOLDFIELDS DAISY. Olearia muelleri is a spreading shrub to 1.5 m high. The plants in the Westonia Common are smaller. The flower heads are typically white with a yellow centre.
ASTERACEAE Olearia muelleri bushGOLDFIELDS DAISY. Olearia muelleri occurs throughout the goldfields and wheatbelt and into South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.
ASTERACEAE Olearia muelleri blueGOLDFIELDS DAISY. Olearia muelleri is most commonly white but a blue or mauve form also occurs. This is the only blue- flowering goldfields daisy plant that we have seen so far in the Westonia Common. It was in Morrel woodland.
ASTERACEAE Olearia muelleri blueGOLDFIELDS DAISY. Olearia muelleri shrub with blue/mauve flowers. It was about 0'7 m high. This colour form is popular in cultivation.
ASTERACEAE Olearia pimeleoidesSHOWY DAISY-BUSH. Olearia pimeleoides can grow to 2 m high. The leaves are elliptical and have a white woolly coating on the back, and are shiny green on the upper surface. In Westonia Common, this species is much less common than the goldfields daisy, Olearia muelleri.
ASTERACEAE. Olearia pimeleoidesSHOWY DAISY-BUSH. In Western Australia, Olearia pimeleoides mostly occurs through the Murchison, wheatbelt and goldfields and also in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
BORAGINACEAE Halgania integerrimaHalgania integerrima is a dense spreading dome shaped plant.
BORAGINACEAE Halgania integerrimaHalgania integerrima, Westonia Common is at the western edge of its range at this latitude. The range extends from Denham to south of Norseman, into goldfields and station country.
CAESALPINIACEAE Senna artemisioides subsp filifoliaDESERT CASSIA, SILVER CASSIA, PUNTY BUSH. Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia occurs over much of mainland Australia especially where it is hot and dry. Filifolia means thread-like leaf. It can grow to 3 m but the plants recorded in Westonia Common are all less than 2 m high.
CAESALPINIACEAE Senna artemisioidesDESERT CASSIA, SILVER CASSIA, PUNTY BUSH. Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia . Flower. This species is quite common in the Westonia Common.
CHENOPODIACEAE Atriplex nummulariaOLD MAN SALTBUSH. Atriplex nummularia has uneven shaped leaves with a felty surface texture. It is a hardy plant which occurs in all Australian mainland states and the Northern Territory.
CHENOPODIACEAE Atriplex nummulariaOLD MAN SALTBUSH. Atriplex nummularia is the largest Australian saltbush. It can grow to 3 m tall but the plants seen in Westonia Common so far are less than 2 m tall. The leaves and seeds are edible by humans and also stock.
CHENOPODIACEAE Enchylaena tomentosaBARRIER SALTBUSH. Enchylaena tomentosa is a low, spreading plant with woolly stems and leaves. It produces fruit that are edible for humans and many other species and occurs almost throughout Australia excluding Tasmania.