Chocolate Lily

Chocolate Lily Arthropodium fimbriatum.  They really do smell like chocolate.

Yanununbeyan

Heath Milkwort Comesperma ericinum

Black-eyed Susan Tetratheca ericifolia

Austral Bugle Ajuga australis

A day flying Noctuid moth Periscepta polysticta

Red Rocks Gorge

Native Flax Linum marginale

Male Red-Headed Mouse Spider Missulina occatoria

Red Rocks Gorge

Spring at the River

A small, low creeper Convolvulus angustissimus flowering now

Bulbine lillies Bulbine bulbosa

Black Cypress Pine Callitris endlicheri

 Dead Leaf or Gumleaf Grasshopper Goniaea australasiae

At the River

Pink Fingers Caladenia carnea.  No, wait- amateur botanist alert...more likely Dusky Fingers Caladenia fuscata. Thin dark stem and incurving labellum with pointy bits.  At first this seemed a white flower but actually it is tinged pink. Carnea flowers later, is slightly larger, has thicker, greener stem and less common in this area.

Creamy Candles Stackhousia monogyna

Naas Creek Valley

Bear's ears Cymbonotus spp

Dominant tree species include Black Sallee Eucalyptus stellulata (left) and Snow Gum Eucalyptus pauciflora (right)

And Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra

Dried seed pods of Small-fruit Hakea microcarpa 

Naas Creek Valley with Mt Gudgenby coming into view

Boboyan Homestead ruins

Mt Ainslie Trees

Dominant species on Mt Ainslie are Scribbly Gums Eucalyptus rossii (white trunks) and Drooping She-oak Allocasuarina verticillata (narrower black fissured trunks)

Drooping She-oak with a bad but lucky shot of a Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis - taken on a pocket snapshot camera

View of Canberra from Mt Ainslie. Smoke at centre right is from a burn off on Oakey Hill

Mt Ainslie flowers

Nodding Blue Lily Stypandra glauca

Kangaroo Thorn Acacia paradoxa is plentiful

Twining Glycine Glycine clandestina 

Hardenbergia violaceae

Tiny Cryptandra amara

Orroral Valley

Dagger Wattle Acacia siculiformis named for the very sharp pointed dagger leaves

Ovens or Wedge-leafed Wattle Acacia pravissima in bud

Seed pods of Long-leaf Lomatia Lomatia myricoides 

Orroral Valley

Silver Wattle

Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata is flowering now

Lakeview Track

Understorey shrubs of  Pomaderris intermedia in bud.  The flowers will be golden.

Box-leaf Wattle Acacia buxifolia

Common or Creeping Hovea Hovea heterophyla

Early Nancy

Early Nancy's Wurmbea dioica emerging from the ground.

Confirmation that it is now Spring.

Snow!

Snow falling on Black Mountain 12/08/15

Cooleman Ridge

Cootamundra Wattle Acacia baileyana in flower now. This Wattle is not originally from the Canberra area and is considered a weed.

Lower leaf stalks are swept back towards the branch

Broadleaf Cumbungi Typha orientalis giving away their seeds now.

View to the west from Cooleman Ridge