Alice Springs FloraFlora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Bougainvillea Apple Bush Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander

Alice Springs and Central Australia is home to a wonderful range of endemic plants.

Also seen around the streetscape of Alice Springs, urban gardens, botanic garden, parks and reserves are both endemic and introduced plants, some of which are depicted here, enjoy…

Click on the images to see more information about the plants.

Acacia ligulata, Alice Springs NT
Acacia (Acacia ligulata)
Annual Yellowtop (Senecio gregorii), Alice Springs NT
Annual Yellowtop (Senecio gregorii)
Ashby's banksia (Banksia ashbyi)
Ashby’s Banksia (Banksia ashbyi)
Apple Bush (Pterocaulon sphacelatum), Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs NT
Apple Bush (Pterocaulon sphacelatum)
Australian Bluebell (Wahlenbergia gracilis), Alice Springs, NT
Australian Bluebell (Wahlenbergia)
Australian Desert Rose (Gossypium australe) with Australiphthiria sp, Alice Springs Desert Park NT
Australian Glossypium (genus Gossypium)
Bat's Wing Coral Tree (Erythrina vespertilio)
Batswing Coral Tree (Erythrina vespertilio)
Bougainvilleas (genus Bougainvillea), Alice Springs NT
Bougainvilleas (genus Bougainvillea)
Yellow Billy Buttons (Genus Calocephalus), Central Australia, NT
Billy Buttons (genus Calocephalus)
Birdsville indigo (Indigofera linnaei)
Birdsville indigo (Indigofera linnaei)
Blue Mallee (Eucalyptus gamophylla)
Blue Mallee (Eucalyptus gamophylla)
Blue Pincushion (Brunonia australis)
Blue Pincushion (Brunonia australis)
Burdekin Plum (Pleiogynium timorense), Alice Springs NT
Burdekin Plum (Pleiogynium timorense)
Bush Banana (Marsdenia australis)
Bush Banana (Marsdenia australis)
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis), Alice Springs NT
Callistemon
Cape honeysuckle (Tecoma capensis)
Cape honeysuckle (Tecoma capensis)
Female flower of the Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa), Alice Springs NT
Carob Tree, female flower (Ceratonia siliqa)
Golden Shower Tree (Cassia fistula), Alice Springs, NT
Cassia fistula (Golden Shower Tree)
Cattlebush (Trichodesma zeylanicum), Alice Springs NT
Cattlebush (Trichodesma zeylanicum)
Parrot Pea (Crotalaria cunninghamii)
Crotalaria
Kapok Bush (Aerva javanica), Alice Springs NT
Desert Cotton / Kapok Bush (Aerva javanica)
Desert Oak (Allocasuarina decaisneana), Alice Springs Desert Park
Desert Oak (Allocasuarina decaisneana)
Flannel Cudweed (Actinobole uliginosum), Alice Springs NT
Flannel Cudweed (Actinobole uliginosum)
Fork-leaf Corkwood (Hakea divaricata), Alice Springs NT
Fork-leaf Corkwood (Hakea divaricata)
Georges Indigo (Indigofera georgei)
Georges Indigo (Indigofera georgei)
Ghost Gum (Corymbia aparrerinja), Alice Springs NT
Ghost Gum (Corymbia aparrerinja)
Goatshead Burr (Sclerolaena bicornis), Ilparpa Claypans, Alice Springs NT
Goatshead Burr (Sclerolaena bicornis)
Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum), Alice Springs Desert Park, NT
Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum)
Goodenia vilmoriniae, Redbank Gorge, NT
Goodenia
Grey Germander (Teucrium racemosum), Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs NT
Grey Germander (Teucrium racemosum)
Kapok Bush (Aerva javanica), Alice Springs NT
Kapok Bush / Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica)
Kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus), Alice Springs NT
Kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus)
Lemon-flowered Gum (Eucalyptus woodwardii), Alice Springs NT
Lemon-flowered Gum (Eucalyptus woodwardii)
MacDonnell's Desert Fuchsia (Eremophila macdonnellii), Alice Springs NT
MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia (Eremophila macdonnellii)
MacDonnell Ranges Cycads at Angkerle Atwatye (Standley Chasm)
MacDonnell Ranges Cycads
Maireana scleroptera
Maireana scleroptera
Mexican Poppy (Argemone ochroleuca)
Mexican Poppy (Argemone ochroleuca)
Minnie Daisy (Minuria leptophylla), south of Alice Springs, NT
Minnie Daisy (Minuria leptophylla)
Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii), Birthday Hole, West MacDonnell Ranges
Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii)
Native Apricot (Pittosporum angustifolium)
Native Apricot (Pittosporum angustifolium)
Native Bluebells (Wahlenbergia queenslandica), Alice Springs Desert Park NT
Native Bluebells (Wahlenbergia queenslandica)
Native Tobacco (Nicotiana megalosiphon subspecies sessilifolia), Alice Springs Desert Park NT
Native Tobacco (Nicotiana megalosiphon subspecies sessilifolia)
Bush Tomato (Solanum ellipticum)
Native Tomato (Solanum ellipticum)
Needlewood (Hakea leucoptera), Alice Springs NT
Needlewood (Hakea leucoptera)
Olive Tree (Olea europaea), Alice Springs NT
Olive Tree (Olea europaea)
Orange Spade Flower (Hybanthus aurantiacus), Finke Gorge National Park, 2007
Orange Spade Flower (Hybanthus aurantiacus)
Perennial Yellow Top (Senecio magnificus), Alice Springs NT
Perennial Yellow Top (Senecio magnificus)
Pineapple Guava (Feijoa sellowiana)
Pineapple Guava (Feijoa sellowiana)
Pink Everlasting (Schoenia cassiniana), Alice Springs Desert Park
Pink Everlasting
Poached Egg Daisy (Polycalymma stuartii)
Poached Egg Daisy (Polycalymma stuartii)
Hairy Mulla Mulla (Ptilotus helipteroides)
Ptilotus
Quandong (Santalum acuminatum)
Quandong (Santalum acuminatum)
Santalum murrayanum (Bitter/Weeping Quandong), Great Southern Region WA © Terry Dunham
Bitter/Weeping Quandong (Santalum murrayanum)
Resurrection Fern (Cheilanthes lasiophylla)
Resurrection Fern (Cheilanthes lasiophylla)
Rosy Dock (Rumex vesicarius), Alice Springs
Rosy Dock (Rumex vesicarius)
Ruby Saltbush (Enchylaena tomentosa)
Ruby Saltbush (Enchylaena tomentosa)
Bush Tomato (Solanum centrale) © Tony Bean, Senior Botanist, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Solanum centrale
Bush Tomato (Solanum chippendalei) © Tony Bean, Senior Botanist, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Solanum chippendalei
Bush Tomato (Solanum ellipticum)
Solanum ellipticum
Wild Tomato (Solanum quadriloculatum)
Solanum quadriloculatum
Spike Centaury (Schenkia australis), Ilparpa Claypans, Alice Springs
Spike Centaury (Schenkia australis)
Spinifex, East Macdonnell Ranges, NT
Spinifex
Hummock grassland - Spinifex / Triodia, West MacDonnell Ranges, NT
Soft Spinifex (Triodia pungens)
Weeping Spinifex (Triodia brizoides)
Weeping Spinifex (Triodia brizoides)
Storkbill (Erodium cygnorum), Tanami Rd (nth of Alice Springs) NT
Storkbill (Erodium cygnorum)
Striped Mintbush (Prostanthera striatiflora)
Striped Mintbush
Sturt’s Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa)
Sturt’s Desert Pea, northern
Sturt’s Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa), Alice Springs NT
Sturt’s Desert Pea, pink
Sturt’s Desert Pea, white
Sturt's Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum
Sturt’s Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum var. sturtianum)
Tall Saltbush (Rhagodia eremaea)
Tall Saltbush (Rhagodia eremaea)
Tangled Leschenaultia (Lechenaultia divaricata), Alice Springs NT
Tangled Leschenaultia (Lechenaultia divaricata)
Tar Vine (Boerhavia coccinea)
Tar Vine (Boerhavia coccinea)
Tribulus eichlerianus, Birthday Waterhole, West MacDonnell Ranges / Tjoritja
Tribulus eichlerianus (Caltrop)
Upside-down Plant (Leptosema chambersii)
Upside-down Plant (Leptosema chambersii)
Variable Daisy (Brachyscome ciliaris), Binns Track, NT
Variable Daisy (family Brachyscome)
Wertabona Daisy (Streptoglossa liatroides), Central Australia NT
Wertabona Daisy (Streptoglossa liatroides)
White Cedar (Melia azedarach), Alice Springs NT
White Cedar (Melia azedarach)
White Indigo (Indigofera leucotricha), Alice Springs NT
White Indigo (Indigofera leucotricha)
White Paper Daisy (Rhodanthe floribunda), Tanami Road (north of Alice Springs), NT
White Paper Daisy (Rhodanthe floribunda)
Wild Passionfruit (Capparis spinosa var. nummularia)
Wild Passionfruit (Capparis spinosa var. nummularia)
Wild Stock (Blennodia canescens), Stuart Highway (south of Alice Springs) NT
Wild Stock (Blennodia canescens)
Woolly-Headed Burr Daisy (Calotis plumulifera), Central Australia NT
Woolly-Headed Burr Daisy (Calotis plumulifera)
Wildberry (Eremophila alternifolia x maculata), Alice Springs NT
Wildberry (Eremophila alternifolia x maculata)
Yellow-keeled Swainsona (Swainsona flavicarinata), Alice Springs NT
Yellow-keeled Swainsona (Swainsona flavicarinata)

Broad-leaved Mistletoe (Amyema madidenii), Kunoth Bore, Central Australia, NT
Amyema madidenii (Broad-leaved Mistletoe)
Wire-Leaf Mistletoe (Amyema preissii)
Amyema preissii (Wire-Leaf Mistletoe)
Amyema sanguinea mistletoe, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Amyema sanguinea (Blood Mistletoe)
Harlequin Mistletoe (Lysiana exocarpi), Central Australia
Lysiana exocarpi (Harlequin Mistletoe)
Harlequin Mistletoe (Lysiana exocarpi subsp. exocarpi), yellow form, Kunoth Bore NT
Lysiana exocarpi subsp. exocarpi (Harlequin Mistletoe) – yellow form

  • Scientific Classification
    Kingdom: Plantae

    — see the main Flora section for more information on scientific classification.

Footnote & References

  1. Australian Plants June 1985 Vol 13 No 103, Wildflowers of Central Australia, Australian Native Plants Society, https://anpsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Australian-Plants/Australian-Plants-Vol13-103.pdf


Alice Springs FloraFlora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Bougainvillea Apple Bush Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander

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