All Wildflowers

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.

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.

River Red Gum

Medium to tall tree with a thick trunk and major branches. Grey flaking bark on trunk and lower branches. Young trees and minor branches have smooth mottled bark.

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.

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,

Running Postman, Scarlet Runner

A scrambling ground cover with bright red flowers in spring, a vine that does not climb.

Rusty Spider Orchid

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

Sand Bottlebrush

Not your ordinary bottlebrush. Beaufortia squarrosa is a medium open shrub. Leaves are arranged with geometrical precision - small and rounded, crowded along the stem in alternating opposite pairs.

Sand Hibiscus

Shrub, (0.1-)0.5-3 m high. Fl. blue-purple/violet, Mar or May or Jul to Dec. Red sandy soils, granite. Sand dunes, sandplains.

Sand Hibiscus

Shrub to 3m high with stellate hairs. Solitary flower on a stalk, lilac, darker and purplish towards the base, with deep red stamens. The flower rarely opens wide.

Sand Sunray, Teitkens Daisy

Annual forb to 50cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, the upper leaves stem clasping. Flowersheads yellow, with no ligulate florets. Flower heads cylindrical to narrow bell-shaped,