Wildflower Watch

What's blooming along the Coral Coast

Welcome to the most up-to-date guide to what’s blooming right now along Western Australia’s Coral Coast.

Scroll down for the latest wildflower sightings and where to find them.
If you’re planning your own wildflower adventure, head over to our main Wildflowers page for even more inspiration. There you’ll find additional hotspots, a free downloadable wildflower guide, local tour options, and self-drive itineraries to help you make the most of the season.

2026 Wildflower Season

17th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Mullewa

Mullewa & Surrounding Trails: Yellow everlasting, yellow and white pom pom everlastings and pink star everlastings, daisies and sticky starflower. Spider, donkey, pink candy and sugar candy orchids. Pincusions, golden waitzia and yellow anthered wumbrea.

Event: Don't miss the Outback Bloom Festival in Mullewa from the 17th - 30th of August.

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16th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Cape Range National Park

Exmouth & Cape Range National Park: Eucalyptus, banksia, wattle, grevillea, featherflower, hibiscus, club-leaved starflower, hakea, hairy pepperflower, northern coppercups, oval-leaf senna, slender petalostylis, sticky senna, trigger plant, mulla mulla, wild rose and Sturt's Desert Pea.

Want a local expert to help you spot them? - Be sure to join Ian from Trek Ningaloo, on a hiking experience through Cape Range National Park.

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12th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Exmouth

Cape Range National Park & Exmouth: Purple mulla mulla, camel bush, swainson pea, sea heath and acasia.

Credit: Captured by Jade Cantrall, from Yardie Creek Boat Tours.

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11th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Kalbarri & Surrounds: A variety of orchids including Kalbarri spider, cowslip, donkey, and lemon-scented sun (when it's sunny enough). Kangaroo paws, featherflowers (mainly yellow), pink parakeelya, purple tassels, spreading coneflower, petrophiles, smoke bush, Kalbarri catpaws, hakea, native yam, grevilleas, trigger plant, boronia and wattles in full bloom, purple fringe lillies, mirbelia and the first everlastings.

National Park: Same orchids as above, as well as snail orchids.

Credit: Yvonne from Wondrous World Images.

LOCATION: Mingenew

Mingenew Hill: Pom poms beginning to open,

Coalseam Conservation Park: Pom poms and everlastings are starting to bloom, variety of orchids.

Mingenew Recreation Centre: Spider orchids, boome milwart, hakea, grevillea, flannel bush, dampiera and rock thryptomene, and pink everlastings.

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10th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Wildflower Country

Mullewa Wildflower Walk: White and yellow everlastings, pink star everlasting, velvet firebush, sticky star-flower, star flower, wax flower, turpentine bush, grevillea, daisies and fringe lily.

Mullewa Bushland Trail: Spider and donkey orchids, ressurection plant, star flower, velvet firebush and the ricinocarpos velutinus.

Older Tenindewa School: Silver cassia, wattles, philotheca brucei, Ashby's wattle and pink rainbow sundew.

Beringarra - Pindar Road: Hakea, bush pomegranate, wreath flowers (starting to bloom), and guinea flower

Credit: Ourtravelperspective.

LOCATION: Shark Bay

Shark Bay & Surrounds (Denham, Monkey Mia, Shark Bay Road): Ptilotus villosiflorus, yellow wattle, Shark Bay daisies, tomato bush, tamala rose, and carpobrotus rossii.

Tip: Be sure to visit the Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery & Visitor Centre for all of the latest information.

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7th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Wildflower Country

Mingenew Hill: White and pink everlastings beginning to bloom, acacias, blue storksbill, needle tree and wattles.

Corrow Community Farm: Yellow and white pom poms, everlasting daisies budding (will bloom shortly), wattles, hakeas, feathery cassia, acasias, and pixie bush starting to bloom.

Coalseam Conservation Park: Native shrubs, hakeas, wattles, pink and white everlastings, yellow pom poms. The thorny salbushes are budding.

Credit: Ourtravelperspective.

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6th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Kalbarri Skywalk: Pink fairy orchids

Z Bend Trail: Pink fairy orchids and donkey orchids

Captured on tour with D'Guy Journeys - day tours available departing from Kalbarri, or join their 5 Day wildflower adventure departing from Perth.

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5th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Mullewa

Wandina Station: White everlastings, native foxglove, upside-down pea bush and more.

Pindar: The wreath flowers are expected to bloom in roughly 3-4 weeks, but one started early.

Credit: Glenda Blyth - You can hear from Glenda & Murray at the Outback Bloom Festival in Mullewa 27-30 August

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4th of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Kalbarri Skywalk, Nature's Window and the Z Bend Trail: A variety of orchids including cowslips and hybrid cowslips, and blooming native bushes.

Want a local expert to help you spot them? - Be sure to join D'Guy Journeys, with day tours available departing from Kalbarri or join their 5 Day wildflower adventure departing from Perth.

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3rd of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Kalbarri & Surrounds: A variety of orchids including fairy, greenhood, lemon-scented sun, snail, spider and donkey. Hakea, broom milkwort, native yam, grevillea, trigger plant, wattles, tailflowers, ribbon peas and more.

Z-Bend and Four Ways Trail: A variety of orchids.

Skywalk: Cowslip and snail orchids and more.

Credit: Yvonne from Wondrous World Images.

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2nd of August, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Mullewa

Mullewa Wildflower Trail: Yellow and white everlastings, a variety of orchids including spider, donkey and sugar candy, and valley lilies.

Tenindewa next to Greenough River: Pink and White everlastings

Mullewa Bush Trail Walk: Variety of orchids from fairy, donkey and spider, valley lilly and pink everlastings.

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31st of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Shark Bay

Shark Bay Surrounds: Yellow pom poms, lechenaultia and camel bush.

Tip: Be sure to visit the Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery & Visitor Centre for all of the latest information.

29th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Shark Bay

At the intersection of Shark Bay Road and North West Coastal Highway: Yellow everlastings.

LOCATION: Mullewa

Mullewa Wildflower Trail: A variety of everlastings.

LOCATION: Pindar

Roadside: The rare wreath flowers are appearing in abundance, with only a few blooms spotted so far. Give them a little more time and they should be putting on a spectacular display soon. We'll continue to share updates here.

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19th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Exmouth

Cape Range National Park & Exmouth: Purple mulla mulla, Sturt's desert pea, Ashburton pea, bush tomato and banksias.

Credit: Captured by Exmouth Adventure Co, offering single-day and multi-day experiences at Ningaloo.

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24th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Mullewa

Mullewa Bush Trail Walk: A variety of orchids - donkey, pink candy and spider, everlastings, yellow buttons, and fringe lily.

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19th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Exmouth

Cape Range National Park & Vlamingh Head Lighthouse: Purple mulla mulla.

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Bigurda Trail: Egg and bacon flower, grey cotton head, one-sided bottlebrush, dampiera, acacia lasiocarpa and more coastal bush varieties.

Credit: Exmouth Camper Hire - offering self-contained, self-sufficient, green energy, camper vans, in Exmouth, with one way options available through out WA.

Tip: Be sure to stop in at the Kalbarri Visitor Centre to grab one of their wildflower guides for just $2.

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16th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Indian Ocean Drive

The Pinnacles Desert: Parrot Bush (Banksia Sessilis) - found near the muster sign and along the driving loop. Snake Bush (Hemiandra Pungens) - found near the south end of the driving loop.

Want a local expert to help you spot them? - Be sure to join Take You There Tours, with day tours available departing from Perth.

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15th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Shark Bay

Francois Peron National Park: Shark Bay Rose (Tamala Rose), flowering wattles and native bushes.

Want a local expert to help you spot them? - Be sure to join Shark Bay Eco Tours on a 4WD adventure through Francois Peron National Park.

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13th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Kalbarri Coastal Cliffs: Velvet fanflower, hairy mirbelia, narrow leaved pimlea, guinea flower, common pop flower, bird beak hakea, Kalbarri carpet, Murchison rose, Murchison bell and coastal hibiscus.

LOCATION: Warroora Station

Warroora Station: White mulla mulla.

LOCATION: Mullewa

Mullewa Bush Trail Walk: Snail orchids and blue fairy orchids

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9th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Kalbarri & Surrounds: Grevilleas, native yams, hakeas, bluebeard orchids, spider orchids, dwarf zebra orchids and more.

Credit: Yvonne from Wondrous World Images.

LOCATION: Mullewa

Bowtell Park: Budding everlastings, with some beginning to bloom.

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8th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Mullewa

Mullewa Wildflower Walk: Snail orchids

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7th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Kalbarri

Loop Trail: Sightings of blue and pink fairy orchids

Island Rock: Murchison rose, and all along the coast.

Ross Graham & Hawks Head: Guinea flower appearing

Inland Kalbarri National Park: Purple thryptomene

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6th of July, 2026 Update

LOCATION: Carnarvon.

20km North of the Overlander Roadhouse: White mulla mulla.

Credit: Images supplied by Rennee at Wooramulla Eco Cultural Journeys.

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3rd of July, 2026 Update

After the heavy rains of cyclone Narelle, our northern regions are beginning to burst with wildflowers.

LOCATION: Cape Range National Park

Within the National Park there are sturt's desert pea, candelabra grevillea, late feather flower, green bird flower, flannel flower, Cape Range grevillea (seed pods), Cape Range poverty bush and more.

Want a local expert to help you spot them? - Be sure to join Ian from Trek Ningaloo, on a hiking experience through Cape Range National Park.

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Did you know we have a Wildflower Guide? For more general information on Wildflowers, Tours, Self-drive Itineraries and Planning Inspiration, head to our 'In Bloom on the Coral Coast' resource hub.