Today's featured song is: "Hatsukoisou" by FLG4 feat. Flower! (warning: video contains epileptic content)

Slightly peculiar-looking examples of a wildflower widespread here the SW of WA. They normally look like this -

The correct spelling of the generic name, Lechenaultia, is open to some argument. It was named after Jean-Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de La Tour, a French botanist and ornithologist who visited Australia in 1802-3. However, when Robert Brown (1773–1858) & 'the father of Australian botany' first published the name he spelt it Lechenaultia, omitting the 's'. The spelling without the 's' is considered valid by Australian taxonomists.

A prostrate, almost leafless, herbaceous subshrub that comes up in profusion after bushfires.

The genus of twenty species has an impressive range of colours - blue, green, yellow, red and white - making them highly prized for horticultural work.

Leschenaulta Biloba in its natural habitat; the Eneabba area between Perth and Geraldton, Western Australia.