All Wildflowers

Red Toothbrushes

This aptly named Grevillea is a large bushy shrub commonly between 3-4 metres in height. The slender upright foliage is a silvery green to 15 cm in length and may be undivided or dissected.

Resurrection Plant

Just what this plant looks like will depend on weather conditions and time of year. In dry conditions it will appear to be brown and almost dead - after rain it "resurrects" itself as the leaves turn

Rhodanthe citrina

Erect annual, herb, 0.05-0.3(-0.5) m high.

Riceflower

Small woody shrub with multiple slender stems arising at ground level, giving a rounded appearance. Grows to about 1m tall. Small oval leaves 1cm long densely packed in 4 rows along stems.

Riceflower

Small soft shrub to about 70cm. Smooth oval leaves in opposite pairs along stems. Small four petaled yellow flowers in heads at the end of branches.

Riceflower

Small soft shrub with flower heads at the end of the branches. Small flowers with 4 petals. Leaves small, soft and arranged in opposing pairs along the stem.

Rigid Wattle

Bushy, erect to sprawling, pungent shrub, (0.3-)0.5-3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. White, yellow or red sand. Coastal or near coastal sandplains & sand dunes.

Rusty Spider Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Rusty Spider Orchid, Caladenia ferruginea found in the whole of the south west area

River Cooba

Erect or spreading tree 4–13 m high, often suckers; bark fissured, dark grey-brown; branchlets angled or flattened towards apices, glabrous or sometimes finely hairy, often ± pruinose.

Rosella

Annual shrub, 1.5 m high

Rough Halgania

Rough Spider-flower - Kangaroo Island Endemic

Low spreading shrub 0.3–1.0 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly oblong to sublinear-subterete, usually plump, 0.2–1.7 cm long, 1.0–2.1 mm wide; margins revolute; upper surface muricate; lower surface

Rough-leaved Ghost Gum

Smooth white bark and rough almost sandpaper-textured leaves are distinctive features of this beautiful tree of desert areas. The mature crown of these trees is made up of juvenile-type leaves that

Round-fruit Banksia

Low shrub to 1.5m. Leaves narrow, edges rolled under, about 3cm long. Flower spikes change colour as flowers mature - from pale green/yellow, to mauve and purple to brown.

Rounded Noon-flower

A common sight in sandy hollows, on limestone, saltlakes and clay flood plains, as well as in coastal areas. Disphyma has rounded leaves that root at the nodes,

Royal Hakea

Leaves that glow in the sunlight crown this royal gem. Grows to 2-3 metres in height. The large stiff leaves enclose a cluster of cream or pinkish flowers. The leaves darken with age.

Royal Hakea

Tall shrub, 6ft high, large stiff multicoloured leaves.

Ruby Saltbush

Hemispherical shrubby perennial to c. 1 m high. Branches glabrous to hairy. Leaves semiterete, succulent, to c. 15 mm long, glabrous to shortly hairy. Fruit 5–8 mm diam., green, yellow,

Running Postman

Prostrate or twining herb; stems ± whitish pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ± circular, rarely broad-obovate, mostly 0.6–2.4 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, margins undulate,

Rock Isotome

Tucked in among rocks, where there is shelter and moisture. Erect, spreading annual or perennial, herb with toothed soft leaves, (0.1-)0.2-0.6(-1) m high. Fl. blue/blue-purple, Feb to Nov.

Stylidium eriopodum

Creeping perennial, herb (forming compact clumps to 15 cm wide), elevated above soil on wiry stilt roots up to 6 cm long. Fl. yellow-orange-green, Oct to Nov. Gritty loam soils on granite rocks,

Showy Dryandra

Common, dense, often columnar shrub to 1.5 m tall with serrated leaves 20 - 25cm long.

Shrubby Velvet-Bush

Wiry shrub to 2.5m tall. Stems and new shoots covered with rusty red hairs. Flowers are crowded in clusters. Calyx lobes are speckled outside with star shaped (stellate) hairs, smooth and pale inside.

Southern Blechnum Banksia

The Southern Blechnum Banksia is a prostrate spreading shrub with horizontal stems and fern-like leathery leaves that give the plant its specific name.