Welcome to the Plants of Sydney website. This site aims to enable locals and visitors to identify some of the most common and conspicuous species of native plants around the Sydney metropolitan area. As new plants have been added recently, more have come from a wider range of areas, with most of the photographs taken in the Ku-ring-gai Chase, Royal National and Lane Cove National Parks, the most magnificent Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden, Sydney Harbour National Park and the UTS Ku-ring-gai Campus.

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Acacia suaveolens (Sweet-scented wattle)

Family Mimosacaea This straggly shrub, up to about

Thelymitra ixioides (Spotted Sun-orchid)

Family Orchidaceae This beautiful orchid is quite

Dillwynia retorta (Eggs and bacon)

Family Fabaceae A straggly understorey shrub, most

Grevillea speciosa ssp. speciosa (Red spider flower)

Diagnosis: A shrub to 2 m tall, with ovate leaves

Leptospermum squarrosum (Pink tea tree)

Family Myrtaceae A tall and very erect shrub to 3

Woollsia pungens (Woollsia)

Family Epicidaceae This understorey shrub of less

Epacris microphylla (Coral Heath)

Family Epacridaceae A very common shrub on heathla

Hibbertia cistiflora

Family Dilleniaceae One of a number of species wit

Dampieria stricta

Family Goodeniaceae A low, wiry, straggly shrub, w

Hibbertia dentata

Family Dilleniaceae A twining creeping plant with

Patersonia glabrata (Leafy purple-flag)

Family Family Iridaceae A striking plant when in f

Burchardia umbellata (Milkmaids)

Family Cochicaceae A conspicuous inflorescence, bo