Kingia australis Archives

Tattered Trigger plant at Mount Frankland — Tattered Trigger Plant Stylidium laciniatum

Wildflowers at Mount Frankland can be found blooming throughout the whole year, as different flowers bloom at different times of the year. We found Mount Frankland National Park quite abundant in wildflowers when we visited it early January. Below are some of the wildflowers we have seen and photographed.

Below left: Bull Banksia Banksia grandis. Below middle: Candle-spike Hakea Hakea ruscifolia. Below right: Fly-away Trigger Plant Stylidium caespitosum.

Below left: Goodenia eatoniana. Below middle: Crowea species. Below right: Scaevola calliptera.

Below left: Hemigenia (possibly incana). Below middle: Xanthosia rotundifolia Southern Cross. Below right: Karri Boronia Boronia gracilipes.

Below left: Kingia Australis. Below top right: Pimelea. Below bottom right: Many-flowerd Fringed Lily Thysanotus multiflorus.

Bluff Knoll is the third highest mountain peak in Western Australia and is the highest in Stirling Range

Stirling Range NP is one of the best places in Western Australia for hiking, as well as to view wildflowers. Over 1500 species of plants grow there, with some plants not existing anywhere else in the world. Some plants are easy to spot and they are quite abundant. Others are rare and threatened flora and very hard to find, as it is protected. Certain types of wildflowers, like mountain bells, only grow in altitudes higher than 300 meters above sea level.

Bluff Knoll flora

The plants below were all photographed while climbing Bluff Knoll hiking trail.

Gastrolobium bilobum (Heart leaved poison)

East and West of Stirling Range NP

I found these wildflowers in Stirling Range National Park in places, other than Bluff Knoll. We stayed at Stirling Range Retreat, where a lot of orchids, as well as other plants grow.