GOODENIACEAE Goodenia caeruleaGoodenia caerulia.
GOODENIACEAE Goodenia caeruleaGoodenia caerulea
GOODENIACEAE Goodenia helmsiiGoodenia helmsii looks like a fan flower. It has white petals with a row of pink or mauve spots. This shrub flowers profusely.
GOODENIACEAE Goodenia helmsiiGoodenia helmsii is a shrub to 1 m high. It has white flowers with a row of pink spots. There is white 'wool' in the angle between the leaf and the stem.
The range of this species is mostly bounded by Pindar (N), Beverly (W). Lake Magenta Reserve (S) and Coolgardie (E).
GOODENIACEAE Goodenia pinifoliaGoodenia pinifolia flower. The image does not capture all the detail of this white flower. The species is a Western Australian endemic. It occurs from Mullewa in the north to Ravensthorpe in the south, and from York in the west to Queen Victoria Rocks in the east.
GOODENIACEAE Goodenia pinifoliaGoodenia pinifolia is an inland species which can grow to 1.5 m high.This one was about 1.1 m high.
GOODENIACEAE Goodenia pinifoliaGoodenia pinifolia is an inconspicuous plant when not in flower. The slender grey primary stem can be seen with difficulty, to the right of this photo. ( It becomes clear with the larger magnification feature.) It is bare for about 0.6 m then secondary stems with leaves and flowers branch out. The plant is growing in disturbed ground at the edge of the town cemetery.
GOODENIACEAE Scaevola restiaceaScaevola restiacea, a FAN FLOWER. This image shows the back of a flower. The species occurs mostly in the wheatbelt but also in the Eastern Murchison and the Eastern Goldfields.
GOODENIACEAE Scaevola restiaceaScaevola restiacea, a FAN FLOWER. Flowers can be found for most of the year.
GOODENIACEAE Scaevola restiaceaScaevola restiacea showing the purplish lines on the petals.
GOODENIACEAE Scaevola restiaceaScaevola resticeae is a FAN FLOWER. This much branched shrub grows to about 0.5 m high. It has white flowers with short purplish stripes on each petal.
GOODENIACEAE Scaevola spinescensCURRANT BUSH, SPINY FAN FLOWER. Although no spines can be seen in this photo, Scaevola spinescens is a rigid spiny shrub with white and yellow flowers which smell rather like bacon. It can grow to 2 m high though the plants seen in Westonia Common were around 0.8 m high.The species occurs over most of Western Australia except the south-west forests and the Kimberleys, as well as in all other mainland states.