Porongurup National Park is important for its endemism and richness in a wide array of plant varieties, with more than 700 native and 10 endemic species within the Porongarup's. 

 

With its diverse wildlife, tall jarrah and karri forests and if you are a bird enthusiast, the lower picnic grounds are full of Malurus splendens more commonly known as blue wrens. 

 

Common wildflowers include one of our favourite, the purple enamel orchid Elythranthera brunonis, cowslip orchid Caladenia flava, blue lady orchid Thelymitra crinita, scarlet flame peas Chorizema rhombeum and candlestick banksia Banksia attenuata.  Nancy Peak Loop and the Castle Rock Granite Skywalk trail are the best to view an assortment of wildflowers and there are many little miracles of nature to be seen, as you walk these trails. 

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The Stirling Range is a unique spot with an abundance of wildflowers, both on walking trails and scenic drives and there is many ways you can inhale what the Stirling Range National Park has to offer.

 

The Stirling Range is a species rich area and the region is recognised internationally as one of the world’s top 35 hotspots for biodiversity. The multitude of various conditions enables more than 1500 species of flowering plants to exist here. Eighty species are found only in the Stirling Range. The park is particularly rich in banksias, eucalypts, orchids and verticordias (feather flowers).

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Among the most beautiful and iconic of the flora are the Darwinias, or mountain bells. Ten species of mountain bells have been identified in the park and only one of these is found outside the Stirling Range.

Torndirrup National Park is famous for its granite formations that tumble to the sea, its green landscapes and where every turn provides a stunning vista with mother nature on display. The National Park is host to The Gap and Natural Bridge, Jimmy Newells Harbour Lookout, The Blow Holes, Stoney Hill, Bald Head and the Salmon Holes.

 

Spring in the Torndirrup’s offers a magnificent display of wildflowers where several trails are lined with a vast sweep of colour and there's a good chance you'll see the Banksia verticillate also known as the rare granite banksias and the Banksia praemorsa also known as the  cut-leaf banksia around the Salmon Holes. The Albany Wind Farm is another great spot for wildflowers with a backdrop of coastal views including 18 wind turbines.

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One of our favourite places to admire the annual display of wildflowers would be Waychinicup National Park, just east of Albany and the name Waychinicup is derived from the Noongar word ‘waitch’, which means ‘emu’ and ‘up’, which means ‘place of.

 

Waychinicup National Park, is nothing short of splendid for wildflowers, with its wild landscapes of sloping granite ranges where you'll find species that are found nowhere else. With the floods of natured flats and little nooks of flowing water and not forgetting the Inlet, Waychinicup has exceptionally diversity and if you’re into plants and coastal wildflowers Waychinicup is where it’s at with the scarlet banskia Banksia coccinea, baxter’s banksia Banksia baxteri, hood leaved hakea Hakea cucullata, Daviesia incrassata a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and holly flame pea Chorizema ilicifolium just to name a few.

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