Wahlenbergia gloriosa, commonly known as royal bluebell is a perennial herb in the bluebell family Campanulaceae. It has egg-shaped leaves near the base of its stem, linear leaves higher up and usually a single purple flower with a tube-shaped base. The flower is the floral emblem of the Australian Capital Territory.
Wahlenbergia is a genus of around 260 species of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. Plants in this genus are perennial or annual herbs with simple leaves and blue to purple bell-shaped flowers, usually with five petals lobes. Species of Wahlenbergia are found on all continents except North America, and on some isolated islands, but the greatest diversity occurs in the Southern Hemisphere.
Wahlenbergia stricta, the Australian bluebell, tall bluebell or austral bluebell, is an Australian wildflower from the Campanulaceae family. It is considered the most commonly encountered of the Wahlenbergias. It is found in all Australian states but not the Northern Territory. It is often seen growing by the side of the road, enjoying the extra runoff.
Coxs Creek, a watercourse of the Cooks River catchment, is located in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.
Wahlenbergia gracilis, common name Australian bluebell, is an Asian wildflower from the family Campanulaceae. It also grows on western Pacific Ocean islands.
Eucalyptus multicaulis, commonly known as the whipstick mallee ash, is a species of mallee that is endemic to New South Wales. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, oval to club-shaped flower buds in groups of between seven and fifteen, white flowers and conical fruit.
Wahlenbergia caryophylloides is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to Western Australia.
Wahlenbergia capillaris, commonly known as tufted bluebell, is a plant in the family Campanulaceae and is native to Australia and New Guinea. It is an erect perennial herb with a few to many stems and grows to a height of 50 cm (20 in). The leaves are mostly linear with a few scattered teeth on the sides and the flowers are blue, bell-shaped with five lobes and arranged in cymes. This bluebell is widespread and common, occurring in all Australian mainland states and territories.
Wahlenbergia gracilenta, commonly known as annual bluebell, is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to Western Australia.
Wahlenbergia littoricola is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to Western Australia.
Wahlenbergia preissii is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to Western Australia.
Wahlenbergia queenslandica is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to Western Australia, to New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory, and South Australia.
Wahlenbergia tumidifructa is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae. This species is native to Australia, where it has a wide distribution across subtropical, semi-arid and arid zones, occurring in all mainland states and territories.
Wahlenbergia graniticola, commonly known as the granite bluebell, is a herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to eastern Australia.
Wahlenbergia planiflora, commonly known as flat bluebell, is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to eastern Australia.
Wahlenbergia scopulicola is a herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to eastern Australia.
Wahlenbergia capensis, commonly known as the Cape bluebell, is a plant in the family Campanulaceae and is native to the Cape Province but has been introduced to Australia. It is an annual herb with up to four greenish blue, bell-shaped flowers with spreading petal lobes.
Roger Charles Carolin is a botanist, pteridologist and formerly an associate professor at Sydney University. He was appointed as a lecturer in botany at the University of Sydney in 1955 earned a Ph.D from Sydney University in 1962 with a thesis on the floral morphology of the campanales, and retired as an associate professor in 1989.
Mirbelia multicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, rigid shrub that typically grows to a height of 15–50 cm (5.9–19.7 in) and has erect stems with few branches. It has scattered, egg-shaped to oblong leaves 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long and spines that are longer than the leaves. The flowers are arranged in clusters in leaf axils or at the base of the spines and are yellow or orange and reddish-brown and appear in September and October. It was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow who gave it the name Dichosema multicaule in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. In 1864, George Bentham changed the name to Mirbelia multicaulis in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (multicaulis) means "many stems".
