Grass trigger plant (Stylidium graminifolium), 2020

Oil based ink on 225gsm acid free paper

148mm x 210mm

One of the things I love about Australian wildflowers is that many of them are small and delicate. You can often miss them.

When we first arrived in this clearing it didn’t seem like there was much to see. I only started noticing flowers when I got down to ground level. The flower of this grass trigger plant (Stylidium graminifolium) caught my eye and when I crouched down to photograph it I noticed that the clearing was full of them. What made the flowers even more striking was the dark colour of the plantation of slash pines in the background.

I have included the scientific name with these prints because common names can be applied to similar plants leading to confusion. To find the scientific name we used the Mangroves to Mountains 2nd edition by Glenn Leiper, Jan Glazebrook, Denis Cox & Kerry Rathie and the Noosa Native Plants website.

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