Dysentry bush
Botanical name: Alyxia buxifolia
Common name: Dysentry bush
Description: Erect to spreading shrub, 1.5m high. Flowers are white from October to November.
Soil/habitat: Coastal dunes and limestone.
Panjang
Botanical name: Acacia Iasiocarpa
Noongar name: Panjang or Pajang
Description: Shrub, 0.15-1.5m high. Flowers are yellow from May to Oct.
Soil/habitat: Variety of soils, laterite. Winter wet areas, swamps, coastal dunes.
Cultural use: Seeds pounded to make flour, which was then used to make damper.
Coast Saltbush
Botanical name: Atriplex cinerea
Common name: Coast Saltbush
Description: Erect to spreading shrub. Flowers are cream-yellow/other from Sep to Oct or Dec.
Soil/habitat: Saline sand. Coastal areas, limestone cliffs, salt lakes, sand dunes.
Cultural use: Leaves can be blanched or boiled and eaten as a vegetable (eg spinach)
Ruby Salt Bush
Botanical name: Enchylaena tomentosa
Common name: Ruby Salt Bush
Description: Prostrate to erect shrub, 0.1-0.6m high. Flowers from May to Sep.
Soil/habitat: Variety of soils, often saline.
Cultural use: Button shaped berries are red when ripe. Eaten as a fresh snack food or dried and soaked in water and reconstituted later. The fruits have a black stone inside that is edible. Leaves can be boiled or steamed and eaten.
Sword sedge
Botanical name: Lepidosperma gladiatum
Common name: Sword sedge
Description: Rhizomatous, tufted robust perennial, grass-like or herb (sedge), 0.5-3m high, clumps to 1.5m wide. Flowers are brown from Nov to Dec or Jan to May.
Soil/habitat: White, grey or calcareous sand, limestone, loam. Dunes, creeklines.
Coastal Boobialla
Botanical name: Myoporum insulare
Common name: Coastal Boobialla, Native Juniper
Noongar name: Boobiala
Description: Dense, low spreading or erect shrub or tree (occasionally), 0.25m-5m high. Flowers are white from Jul to Dec or Jan to Feb.
Soil/habitat: White/grey sand. Coastal dunes and limestone.
Cultural use: Fruits are edible when ripe (bitter and salty).
Coastal Daisybush
Botanical name: Oleria axillaris
Common name: Coastal Daisybush
Description: Erect, much-branched shrub, 0.2-3m high. Flowers are white-cream-yellow from Jan to Jul or Nov to Dec.
Soil/habitat: White/grey or red sand, loam. Coastal limestone & sand dunes, rocky hillsides.
Coral Bush
Botanical name: Templetonia retusa
Common name: Cockie's Tongue, Coral Bush
Noongar name: Yackal Djarr, Injid
Description: Much branched shrub, 0.3-4 m high.
Soil/habitat: White sand, red clay, brown and white gravel, limestone.
Cultural use: Flowers are edible. Tea can be made from the crushed seeds. Seeds best collected when the seed pods are young.
Westringia
Botanical name: Westringia dampieri
Common name: Westringia
Description: Dense shrub, 0.1-2.5m high. Flowers are white, pink, mauve from Jun to Dec or Jan.
Soil/habitat: Often on sandy calcareous soils. Coastal or near-coastal areas.