The Red Horned Poppy (Glaucium corniculatum) is a weed species appearing in the Flinders Ranges.
Red Horned Poppy
Wanderer Butterfly on Sturt’s Desert Pea
The Wanderer, or Monarch, Butterfly introduced to Copley in the Northern Flinders Ranges by a local lepidopterist landing on the stunning Sturt’s Desert Pea in June.
Salty Ice Plant
The edible Salty Ice Plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, has distinct glistening glands seen here on the banks of a flooded creek bed near Marree.
Samphire
Salt Heliotrope
Heliotropium curassavicum, Salt Heliotrope, is native to the Americas and growing prolifically along the damp banks of Copley Retention Dam in the Northern Flinders Ranges.
Aquatic grass
Chenopods
Various forbs in the Chenopodiaceae including Maireana and its more prickly cousin Sclerolaena, growing radiantly in the clay soaks of the Copley Retention Dam inlet.
Desert Chinese-lantern
Abutilon halophilum, the Desert Chinese-lantern flowering on the rocky surrounds of Copley Retention Dam, May.
Showy Foxtail going to seed
Ptilotus exaltatus, the Showy Foxtail Mulla Mulla, proliferating at Warraweena Conservation Park in May, at the end of the third seeding event in the past year.
Silver Mulla Mulla in purple shale
