Hairy Guinea Flower Vanilla Lily (Hibbertia vestita) Predominately (Sowerbaea juncea) Clumping with low spreading ground cover to soft greyish leaves and stems to 50cm. 20cm. Flowers spring to summer. Massed flower displays in spring. Heads Wildflowers Stems and leaves have tiny hairs. of scented flowers flutter in coastal Widespread habitat wallum breezes, creating wondrous scenes. wetlands to high dune heath. Wallum wetlands and high dune heath. of the

Showy Parrot Pea Fringed Lily Sunshine Coast (Dillwynia floribunda) Shrub to 1.5m (Thysanotus tuberosus) A grass- An introduction to the wallum often with long arching stems. Dense like plant found in most soils growing spikes of pea flowers in spring. The amongst other herbs. The flowering wildflowers of the Sunshine Coast wide standard petal forms “Mickey stems are up to 60cm high with purple Mouse Ears” thus giving the plant flowers and fringed petals. Main flowering its nickname. Wallum wetlands and spring and summer. adjacent woodlands.

Chaffy Swamp Pea Wallum Bottlebrush (Pultenaea paleacea) Small shrub (Melaleuca pachyphylla) Mostly upright to 75cm. Dazzling spring display. open shrub to 1.5m. Intermittent flowers Dense heads of pea flowers with in winter, peaks in spring. Flowers red, red markings on and under petals cream or green. Leathery leaves with and “chaffy” bracteoles. Open sharp tip on blunt end. Coastal wetlands wetlands and heaths. and adjacent open woodlands.

Wallum Wedge Pea Common Sundew (Gompholobium virgatum var. (Drosera spatulata) An insectivorous virgatum) Round shrub to 1m. Flowers herb to 30cm. 1 to 5 white or pink flowers late winter with peak in spring. Flower has from basal rosette of leaves during obvious green, sometimes red keel petal, spring to autumn. Green or reddish oval bud is green, ripe seed pod black. leaves have sensitive glandular tentacles Wet wallum and high dune heaths such that respond to external stimuli to trap as Marcus Beach. insects.

Wallum Boronia or Christmas Bells Swamp Heather (Blandfordia grandiflora) (Boronia falcifolia) Small shrub This endangered species was once to 1m. Flowering peaks in spring. widespread throughout the Sunshine 4-petalled flowers. Has aromatic Coast. The insignificant grass like heath-like foliage and often with foliage is often hidden amongst the reddish stems. Open peaty wallum grass. This small herb has spectacular

swamps and heathlands. red and yellow bellow shaped flowers. 72128 07/17 Photos courtesy of Barbara Henderson, Native Iris Michael Gilles and Suzanne Aspland. (Patersonia sericea) Plant to 40cm with strappy leaves. Flowers in late winter and www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au spring, “sericea” refers to silky hairs on the [email protected] dark brown to black buds and seed cases. T 07 5475 7272 F 07 5475 7277 Wallum wetlands, high dune heaths and Locked Bag 72 Sunshine Coast Mail Centre Qld 4560 adjacent open woodlands. Milkmaids Twiggy Bearded Heath Hubbard’s Wattle (Burchardia umbellata) Lily-like plant (Leucopogon virgatus) Small plant with erect (Acacia hubbardiana) Shrub to 2m with with soft stems to 40cm. Flowers spring stems to 30cm with narrow pointed leaves. sometimes arching stems. Flowering late into summer. Perfumed flowers with well- Flowers winter and spring, usually in dense winter into spring. Distinctive sharp-tipped defined pollen presenters around pink clusters. Known as “White Beards” flowers triangular phyllodes (foliage). On slopes central style. Always in wallum wetlands. have “fluffy” petals. Wallum wetlands and of small coastal “mountains” such as Emu high dune. Mountain.

Devils Rice Woombye Bush Prickly-leaved Paperback ( taxifolium) Shrub to (Phebalium woombye) Attractive shrub (Melaleuca nodosa) Prickly shrub to 1m. Numerous white flowers in spring. to 2m. Flowers winter into spring. 3m producing creamy yellow flowers Flowers are 2 lipped and covered with Leaves are white beneath. Leaves and in globular heads in spring. These are soft hairs. Normally occurs in coastal stems covered tiny rough brown “spots”. followed by small nodular woody fruits. wallum swamps. Mainly grows on high dune heath and Common around the junction of wet and coastal hills such as Emu Mountain. dry heathlands.

Common or Bell Heath Queensland Wax Flower Grass Tree (Epacris obtusifolia) Erect small shrub (Philotheca myoporoides ssp. (Xanthorrhoea fulva) Trunkless Grass to 1m with very upright stems. Scented queenslandica) Small shrub to 1m. Flowers Tree to 1.5m. Prolific flowering after fire, bell-like flowers cover upper half of in winter and spring. Thick warty leaves, otherwise spring. Fine long “leaves” stems with the peak in spring. Found aromatic when crushed. Pink buds open to triangular in cross-section, flower spikes only in wallum wetlands. white flowers. to 2m but often less. Mainly open wallum wetlands.

Wallum Heath Rice Flower Wallum (Epacris pulchella) Upright shrub to 75cm (Pimelea linifolia ssp. linifolia) () with white or pink tubular flowers along A somewhat shrubby plant to 1m. Clusters Spreading gnarled tree to 7m. Large stems in autumn and spring. Sharp tipped of white flowers in spring. Flower heads greenish-cream brushes and stiff narrow triangular leaves clasp the stems and turn about the size of a 50c piece. Absence leaves with serrated margins. High dune slightly downward. Widespread, wallum of conspicuous veins other than mid-rib. heaths such as at Marcus Beach, and Wallum heathlands to wallum woodlands. sandy areas adjacent to wallum. wetlands, high dune heath, open dry wallum.

Wallum Wedding Bush Swamp Banksia () () Shrub to 3m with (Ricinocarpos pinifolius) Shrub to 5m. Large open shrub to 3m. Flower brushes spiky terete foliage. Small - Masses of white flowers late winter into in late summer to spring, colour changes like flowers appear in late winter and spring. Separate male and female flowers on from blue-green to gold and rusty to grey spring. Usually seen with woody fruits bush, and round green fruit with soft spine. when old. Large stiff leaves pale under containing 2 winged seeds. Wallum Found in wet wallum, high dune heath, and with yellow veins. Coastal and wallum heaths and adjacent bushland. open wallum all along coastline. swamps, hillsides with moisture.

Wallum tea tree Springelia Woolly Aotus (Aotus lanigera) (Leptospermum semibaccatum) Open shrub (Sprengelia sprengelioides) Slender upright Long-stemmed shrub to 1.5m. Masses to 1.5m. White or pink flowers mainly spring. small “shrub” to 1m. Flowers in late winter to of pea shaped flowers along stems in Has soft seed capsules from which seed sheds spring. Star-like 5-petalled flowers with mauve- spring. Stems, buds and seed pods sooner than other Leptospermum species. pink stamens. Distinct prickly leaves which woolly. Predominately occurs in open Wallum wetlands and high dune heaths. clasp stems. Wet wallum and open heaths. wallum wetlands.