This page shows 87 of the more common and conspicuous local species as described and illustrated in Professor Kingsley Dixon’s book ‘Coastal Plants – A guide to the identification and restoration of plants of the Perth region’, published by CSIRO Publishing and copyright to Cambridge Coastcare Inc in 2010. Clicking on a thumbnail or scientific name will open a copy of the relevant section in the book, complete with plant photographs, whilst clicking on the common name will take you to the relevant section of the Dept of Parks and Wildlife’s Florabase. The Noongar plant names (in italics in the common names column) were provided by John Horsfall, co-author of Hansen, V and J Horsfall. (2016): Noongar Bush Medicine: Medicinal Plants of the South-west of Western Australia. Perth: UWA Publishing.
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| Scientific name | Common name and Noongar name | Thumbnail |
| Acacia cochlearis | Rigid wattle |  |
| Acacia cyclops | Coastal or red-eyed wattle Woolya or Wilyawa |  |
| Acacia lasiocarpa | Panjang Panjang or Pajang |  |
| Acacia rostellifera | Summer-scented wattle |  |
| Acacia saligna | Orange wattle Coojong or Cujong, Kalyung, Kileyung, and Biytch |  |
| Acacia truncata | Angle-leaved wattle |  |
| Acanthocarpus preissii | Prickle lily |  |
| Acrotriche cordata | Coastal blueberry |  |
| Agonis flexuosa | Weeping peppermint Wanil, Wanill, Wannow, Wonong, Wannung, and Warndilyy |  |
| Allocasuarina lehmanniana | Dune sheoak |  |
| Alyxia buxifolia | Sea box |  |
| Anthocercis ilicifolia | Holly-leaf tailflower |  |
| Anthocercis littorea | Yellow tailflower |  |
| Atriplex cinerea | Grey saltbush |  |
| Atriplex isatidea | Coast saltbush |  |
| Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather speargrass |  |
| Caladenia latifolia | Pink fairy orchid |  |
| Calothamnus quadrifidis | One-sided bottlebrush Kwowdjard and Quietjat |  |
| Carpobrotus virescens | Coastal pigface Bain, Kolbolgo, Kolboje and Metjarak (Toodyay only) |  |
| Cassytha flava | Dodder laurel |  |
| Cassytha racemosa | Dodder laurel |  |
| Clematis linearifolia | Slender clematis or traveller's joy Taaruk |  |
| Conostylis candicans | Coastal cottontail |  |
| Conostylis setigera | Bristly cottonhead |  |
| Conostylis setigera | Bristly cottonhead | |
| Desmocladus flexuosus | Tangle rush |  |
| Dianella revoluta | Native flax, dianella Mangard and Mangarel |  |
| Diplolaena dampieri | Dampier's rose |  |
| Diplopeltis hugelii | Pepperbush |  |
| Banksia dallanneyi (previously Dryandra lindleyana) | Honeypot dyandra or couch honeypot Bullgalla |  |
| Banksia (previously Dryandra) sessilis | Parrot bush Pulgart, Budjan and Pudjak |  |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Barrier salt bush, ruby salt bush |  |
| Eremophila glabra | Tar bush, coastal poverty bush. |  |
| Eriochilus dilatatus | White bunny orchid |  |
| Eucalyptus gomphocephala | Tuart Morrol, Duart, Mooarn, Moorun, Mouarn, Tuart and Tooart |  |
| Exocarpos sparteus | Broom ballart Djuk, Chuck, Djiyag, and Dtulya |  |
| Ficinia nodosa | Knotted club rush Yangjet |  |
| Frankenia pauciflora | Sea-heath |  |
| Gastrolobium capitatum | Eggs and bacon |  |
| Gastrolobium nervosum | Dune eggs and bacon |  |
| Grevillea preissii | Coastal spider-net grevillea |  |
| Guichenotia ledifolia | (Guichenotia ledifolia) |  |
| Hakea prostrata | Harsh hakea Pulgar, Doolgur and Janda |  |
| Hemiandra pungens | Coastal snakebush |  |
| Hibbertia spicata | Glossy-leaved coastal guinea flower |  |
| Hibbertia subvaginata | Grey leafed coastal guinea flower |  |
| Leschenaultia linarioides | Yellow leschenaultia |  |
| Lepidosperma gladiatum | Coast sword sedge (kerbein) Kerbein |  |
| Lepidosperma sp. Coastal Dunes | (Lepidosperma pubisquameum) |  |
| Leucophyta brownii | Cushion bush |  |
| Leucopogon insularis | Spiny coastal beard-heath |  |
| Leucopogon parviflorus | Coast beard-heath |  |
| Lomandra maritima | Maritime mat-rush |  |
| Melaleuca cardiophylla | Tangling melaleuca |  |
| Melaleuca huegelii | Chenille honey-myrtle |  |
| Melaleuca lanceolata | Rottnest Island tea-tree Moonah |  |
| Melaleuca systena | Coastal honeymyrtle |  |
| Muehlenbeckia adpressa | Climbing lignum |  |
| Myoporum insulare | Blueberry tree (boobiala) |  |
| Nitraria billardierei | Nitre bush |  |
| Olax benthamiana | Coastal olax |  |
| Olearia axillaris | Coastal daisy bush or, native rosemary. |  |
| Opercularia vaginata | Dog weed |  |
| Pithocarpa (previously Ozothamnus) cordatus | Tangle daisy (as Pithocarpa cordata) |  |
| Parietaria debilis | Native pellitory |  |
| Phyllanthus calycinus | False boronia |  |
| Pimelea ferruginea | Coast banjine |  |
| Pittosporum ligustrifolium | Coastal mock orange |  |
| Rhagodia baccata | Berry saltbush |  |
| Salsola species | Coast roly-poly |  |
| Samolus repens | Common brookweed |  |
| Santalum acuminatum | Sweet quandong Dumbari, Jawirli, Walku, Wanga, Wayanu, Wongil, Candang, Wong, Wonyill and Wolgol |  |
| Scaevola canescens | Grey scaevola |  |
| Scaevola crassifolia | Thick-leaved scaevola |  |
| Scaevola nitida | Shining fanflower |  |
| Scaevola thesioides | Fanflower |  |
| Schoenus grandiflorus | Large-flowered bog-rush |  |
| Senecio condylus | Perth groundsel |  |
| Spinifex hirsutus | Hairy spinifex |  |
| Spinifex longifolius | Beach spinifex |  |
| Sporobolus virginicus | Marine couch |  |
| Spyridium globulosum | Basket bush |  |
| Templetonia retusa | Cockies' tongues |  |
| Thomasia triphylla | Coastal thomasia |  |
| Threlkeldia diffusa | Coastal bonefruit |  |
| Trachymene coerulea | Blue lace flower |  |
| Tricoryne tenella | Yellow autumn lily |  |
| Westringia dampieri | Coastal westringia |  |
