The Grampians have over 1000 different flowering plants so on our recent trip to the Grampians I kept an eye out for wildflowers. I noticed there were a lot more and a bigger variety on our Mount Abrupt hike when compared with The Pinnacles. September to November is peak wildflower season. I use the iNaturalist app to help identify flora and fauna when I am out and about so I’m not 100% certain of the accuracy of my identifications. (They also have the Seek app which is great for kids or if you don’t want to register an account) Here are the flowers I spotted and photographed while we were there:
- Snow Myrtle
2. Showy Bossiaea
3. Common Heath
4. Pine Heath
5. Bushy Needlewood
6. Flame Grevillea
7. Victorian Smoke-bush
8. Pink-bells
9. Waxlip Orchid
10. Grampians bossiaea
Do you like to check out the flora and fauna when you are hiking? Do you use iNaturalist?
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12 responses to “List #40: Wildflowers we saw while in the Grampians”
Oh, how beautiful. I haven’t heard of iNaturalist, but I have a plant identifying app on my phone that I use sometimes when I am out on hikes/runs. The snow myrtle is so pretty!
inaturalist is good because it covers flora and fauna.
I love this post.
I use an app called PictureThis (sometimes Flora Icognita – which is a research project from a German University). I have not heard of iNaturalist.
This post is interesting because all these would not cross my mind when thinking of wild flowers. Obviously it’s a totally different climate and landscape. Seeing it dented down is making it so clear.
I think my favorite is the snow myrtle.
We do have some that are probably more like what you are imagining (annuals that come up in fields of flowers), but we have a lot of flowering shrubs and trees.
These flowers are so cool! I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of any of them. I just love flower names, they are so fun and descriptive.
Australia has distinct flora and fauna not found anywhere else.
Those are all so beautiful!
They are all so pretty!
I don’t legit hike enough to say whether or not I would check out the wildflowers and use an app to identify them. We did a lot of national parks when the kids were younger and before their sport and jobs interfered with family travel. When we did Yellowstone and Glacier and Estes Park, our focus was usually on sightseeing, like waterfalls and landscapes with mountains in the background, but mostly wildlife. We loved waking up at the crack of dawn and watching the wildlife come to the stream for a drink before the sun rose. We saw so many great sights. I can’t say the flowers caught my attention much. I was also focused on keeping kids from falling over the edges of a mountain. 😉
I just keep an eye out as we are hiking, but not so much when I had young kids. I do have some flower photos form Yosemite.
These are all such pretty flowers! How great to have an app to help identify them. I’m the worst at identifying wildflowers!
I would have no clue if I didn’t have the app. Although previously I have used the National Park produced information