Month: August 2021

Wildflowers of the granite belt

I moved into this part of southern Queensland in February, 2021. I am fortunate to live within minutes of the granite hills with their profusion of wildflowers, and within a short drive of Giraween National Park and other special wild places.

I have no claims to being a good photographer, I simply use an old Galaxy phone for the job. But I do get out a lot, and I am able to identify most of the plants I come across, with help from the excellent Flora of the Granite Belt published by the Stanthorpe Rare Wildflower Consortium, of which I am now a member. This is a collection of photos of plants most of which are currently in flower (August), and it isn’t even spring (a line from a song)!

  • Acacia adunca – Wallangarra wattle
  • Acacia filicifolia – fern-leaf wattle
  • Acacia rubida – red-leaved wattle
  • Acacia stricta

  • Actinotus helianthi – flannel flower
  • Bulbine bulbosa
  • Crassula tetramera
  • Epacris microphylla
  • Clematis decipiens
  • Bossaeia rhombifolia
  • Goodenia bellidifolia
  • Hardenbergia violacea – false sarsparilla
  • Hemigenia cunefolia
  • Hovea heterophylla
  • Indigofera australis – native indigo

  • Leionema rotundifolia
  • Leionema rotundifolia
  • Leucopogon melaleucoides
  • Boronia granitica
  • Boronia granitica
  • Melichrus urceolatus
  • Mirbelia speciosa
  • Pimelia linifolia
  • Podolepis jaceoides
  • Senecio pinnatifolius
  • Acacia latisepala
  • Stypandra glauca
  • Thysanotus tuberosus
  • Urticularia
  • Wurmbea biglandulosis
  • Xerochrysum bracteatum
Notelaea linearis
Philotheca conduplicata
Pomaderris spp.
Glycine clandestina
Pultenaea hartmanii
Xanthorroea johnsonii