Last flower of Spring
I don’t remember seeing these last year, but we have quite a few around this year in the area of forest that was burnt in 2010. It is the Blue-spike Milkwort (Comesperma calymega). Of the 32 species of Comesperma found in Australia, 21 occur in Western Australia. According to wikipedia: They are generally small shrubs, climbers or trailing plants, with small to vestigial leaves arranged alternately on the stem. The flowers resemble those of pea-flowers, and are borne in racemes (arranged on a spike with older flowers at the bottom). Although most had already set seeds, because of the rain last week and the week before, a number have produced another crop of flowers. It seems like they have been flowering for a couple of months.
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