The appropriately-named wreath flower

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One of the more unusual wildflowers that people always hope to see is the wreath flower (Lechenaultia macrantha). This is another one that I wrote about in 2016. It’s a low-growing plant and found in gravel and sandy soils in Western Australia. It is often found on the edges of gravel roads that have recently been graded. The plant branches out from the middle and has large yellow, pink and red flowers on the ends of the branches. We took a chance and drove down a gravel road hoping we might find some of these plants and we actually found one – but only one. Sometimes the flowers have more red and pink in them but this one was mainly yellow.