Show wildflowers, only wildflowers in the wild

Bushboy · Oct 24, 2019

melanieylang said:
Yeah I'm hi-tech out here in the sticks (pardon the pun!). We don't have any incredibly long stemmed orchids here, I wonder what that one is.

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Harvey Melvin Richards · Oct 24, 2019

Rabbitbrush

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M1025605-1 by Harvey Richards, on Flickr

archaeopteryx · Oct 24, 2019

Bushboy said:
Convolvolous

Convolvulus arvensis? (Though that individual's quite a bit more lavender than I'm used to seeing.) I'm not spotting Australian control guidance but California has rather a list of options.

Bushboy · Oct 24, 2019

archaeopteryx said:
Convolvulus arvensis? (Though that individual's quite a bit more lavender than I'm used to seeing.) I'm not spotting Australian control guidance but California has rather a list of options.

Ours are exactly like Kev’s. I’m no expert, but I thought it was convolvulus. Purple flowers, easy to spot. I wage war on it with glyphosate and pull it buy hand. I have about 500 meters roadside boundary, it was infested, but I am winning the war. I did not know it as bindweed, but I can relate to that. It certainly binds up my nylon line trimmer, if I foolishly try that. Cheers for the links. ?

Bushboy · Oct 24, 2019

Ipomoea cairica
I got it wrong.
Mile a minute weed. A type of morning glory.
Family: Convolvulaceae !

archaeopteryx · Oct 24, 2019

Might be best to limit an identification to Ipomoea as I think more details would be needed to disambiguate species. Brisbane weed has entries for I. alba, cairica, and indica with a similar block of text in all of them indicating some other Ipomoea species as well and giving diagnostics not visible here. Personally my guess would be more towards I. indica but I'm somewhat hesitant to go beyond Convolvulaceae on just this image.

We should perhaps move this elsewhere so as not to clutter the thread. We have guess the location and identify the object; it's maybe a little surprising there isn't an ID the plant.

melanie.ylang · Oct 25, 2019

One of my favorite native orchids (possibly thelymitra ixioides), found having a nice time at the edge of a patch of scrub which was control burned earlier in the year.

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Bushboy · Oct 26, 2019

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melanie.ylang · Oct 26, 2019

For those who aren't familiar with Australian temperate orchids, these are what I'd consider quite large and flamboyant compared with many smaller wildflowers. Here's my man's hand to show how little these 'big' flowers are:

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melanie.ylang · Oct 29, 2019

A short, fuzzy-stem spider orchid (I don't know the correct name for it!):

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melanie.ylang · Oct 29, 2019

Here's another spider orchid, conducting an orchestra:

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melanie.ylang · Oct 30, 2019

According to Museums Victoria website, Trigger Plant (Stylidium) is widespread in red gum woodland, plains grassland, dry and valley sclerophyll forests and grassy open forests. When the pink flowers are gently prodded, the style suddenly flips over, facilitating pollination via insect visitors. It is found in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia.