Monday, 8 September 2014

Wilpena Pound in Spring

What an enchanting time we had walking the length of the Pound - well to the Cooinda campsite.  Perfect weather and delightful little flowers blooming everywhere.  I'd not seen so many minute flowers on other spring walks. The area has received twice it's annual rainfall this year so that could account for the additional species.

Can anyone help me with the names of these tiny plants? They are not common enough to be in the usual plant identikit booklets.

Some of the plants, such as this little yellow daisy, have paper petals. 













This white daisy had soft frilly petals and is possibly a Brachyscome.











The little yellow daisy on the right is also papery and even tinier than the early nancy -Wurmbea, or maybe a new name by now!! - on the left.













And some of the flowers are plants with succulent like stems and leaves.











While others are on erect stems with soft leaf bases.







This buttercup-like flower is smaller than the cone of the native pine - Callitris - in the bottom left corner.