* Photograph, draw or collect the plant you wish to identify, taking note of the flower colour.

* Select a gallery and browse to identify flowers with similar characters to yours.

* Click on some updated photos to reveal details such as flower size and likely time of flowering.

* Some further information can be found within the NOTES ON DARWIN FLORA page. This is a work in progress and includes personal field observations and species specific info sourced from various useful, and recommended References

Remember that colour can be variable on part of the plant and subjective on part of the observer, so it might pay to look through other galleries. Individual flowers can be multicoloured and to make it more exciting, some flowers will also fade and change colour during the day, or show variation within the same plant or between populations.

Many people are satisfied knowing the genus only and indeed you will be doing quite well to name all genera on a botanical foray around any bit of Top End bushland. Most of us will need a microscope, a keen eye and specialist literature to identify some to species level; particularly grasses, sedges and genera such as Polygala, Spermacoce and Heliotropium etc.

If you are searching areas near roadsides and other disturbed areas you may find your plant in the WEEDS GALLERY. (These species are being incorporated into the other galleries, eventually)