Wildflowers of the Overberg — Heide Pretorius

Yellow button among the vygies Cotula turbinata, the only one open on an overcast August morning. The vygies around it were still closed.

Nerine sarniensis The first of the season, four days after the fire. I picked it up where it had already broken off.

Spergularia on the salt ground Two centimetres across. The succulent stems around it are salt bush, which turns red towards summer.

Pink, six ways Six species that all flowered on the same slope in the same week.

Blue lobelia in the sour grass A clump that returns to the same spot every year, on the south side of the stone ridge.

Green and white A page from the field book: what opened after the first good rain.

Pincushion, from inside Leucospermum cordifolium at the end of its flowering, when the styles begin to curl.