Pycnosorus chrysanthes – Golden Billy Buttons
To 60CM. Erect tufted wildflower. Few slender basal leaves, stem leaves olive green above, paler white-woolly below. Many unbranched, densely white-woolly stems.Solitary globular, compound bright yellow heads held above foliage Aug to Jan.Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.
Pultenae tenuifolia – Slender Bush-pea
To 1M. Spreading, trailing or matting shrub. Hairy, crowded, very narrow grey-green leaves.Single or paired pale yellow flowers at the ends of short branchlets surrounded by clusters of leaves Sept to Nov..
Pultenae scabra – Rough Bush-pea
To 3M. Erect or spreading shrub. Dark green wedge shaped leaves, notched at the end, paler below.Masses of orange-yellow pea flowers with red in centre, in loose clusters.
Pimelea humilis – Common or Small Rice-flower
To 30CM. Straggling perennial low shrub, with suckering habit. Green to grey-green leaves with a blunt tip.Dense, fragrant creamy white flower heads Sept to Dec.Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.
Pimelea glauca – Smooth Rice-flower
To 30CM. Erect, many branched low shrub. Narrow bluish-green leaves.Terminal, erect, hemispherical heads of creamy white tubular flowers Sept to Dec.Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.
Pimelia curviflora – Curved Rice-flower
To 1M. Erect low shrub. Alternate, pale to dull green leaves, densely hairy below.Heads of small curved yellow-green flowers, sometimes dark red on tips Sept to Feb.Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.
Patersonia fragilis – Short Purple Flag
To 60CM. Tussock-forming wildflower. Long stiff narrow blue-green leaves.Bright deep purple flowers on stems shorter than the leaves Aug to Dec.
Ozothamnus rosmarinifolius – Rosemary Everlasting
To 3M. Upright shrub. Narrow, shiny dark green leaves, rough above, cottony below.Dense hemispherical clusters of whitish flowerheads Nov to Feb.
Muehlenbeckia adpressa (prev. australis) – Climbing Lignum
To 60M. Wiry, trailing or climbing over other plants. Heart shaped thick shiny bright green leaves with wavy edges.Loose spikes of greenish-yellow or red-tinged flowers Sept to Jan. Small, succulent dark reddish fruit.
Lythrum salicaria – Purple Loosestrife
To 1.5M. Erect, hairy annual herb on perennial rootstock, aquatic. Stem-clasping small narrow leaves.Clusters of 3-5 tubular, purple to magenta flowers with spreading petals forming a crowded spike-like panicleSept to Apr.