Just completed a 2nd field trip a month apart, to see what changes to vegetation to target plant species next to, and on a sand dune close to the Sandfire Roadhouse. One of the hottest places in Western Australia, this trip each of the 2 months this year entails a round trip of 650km, in a single day.
The weather was very hot. With an inch and a half of rain last night, the middle of the day was 38C and steamy, an appreciated temperature over 41C, so Sandfire did live up to it’s name. That’s what is expected here where a sea breeze is very rare, the Roadhouse being about 8km south of the 80mile beach.
Ground cover herbs come into the scene with a show of ground hugging herbs. Below are some interesting pics, to me at least, green and colourful after recent good wet season rainfall. Click to enlarge:
Calytrix carinata
Capparis spinosa, ssp nummularia
Evolvulus, Heliotrope and Hybanthus
Sida
Solanum
Gossypium australe
Solanum emerging through a Saltwater Couch grass
Solanum
Ventilago viminalis, Medicine Bark Tree
