The term “wild flowers”, as used here, excludes trees, grasses, sedges and ferns but includes a diverse range of forbs and shrubs that bear flowers. The several hundred species listed below are but a fraction of the 1000+ species recorded in the Waterberg but these are the ones thus far photographed in the Waterberg. As can be seen, relatively few of them carry English or Afrikaans names; scientific names follow those listed in Strelitzia 14 (2003) except where updates are known.

Species are listed below alphabetically and Waterberg target species (rare, red-listed and/or endemic) are highlighted in red.

For a quick overview of the species that have White  Yellow  Green  Orange  Brown  Red  Pink  Mauve or  Blue  flowers you can see a composite of each by clicking on the required colour.

More than half of the species illustrated here are in just six families. For a quick overview you can see a family composite by clicking on one of these: Acanthaceae, Apocynaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae, Malvaceae.

The book on the Wildflowers of the Waterberg was published in October 2021.

All hard copies of the book have sold out.

A PDF (not an ebook) of the book can be downloaded here.