All Wildflowers

Red Kangaroo Paw

Largish flower stems in a light red. Inside of flower a creamy colour. Growing roadside in gravelly soil.

Red Kangaroo Paws

Velvety crimson flower heads are a striking sight in the bush or along roadsides. Tufted plant up to 1m tall when flowering. Leaves are strap-like and erect, to about 40cm.

Red Lechenaultia

Eye popping brilliant red or orange-red flowers almost dwarf this low shrub. It only grows to 20cm tall, and often is much smaller. May be prostrate or upright. Leaves about 5mm long.

Red Mallee

Mallee, to 5 m high, bark rough on trunk, smooth above. Fl. yellow/cream, Jul. Red-grey loam, limestone. Calcareous flats, stony screes.

Red Mulga, Creekline Miniritchi

Outback travellers will notice these small trees by the red bark glowing in the sun. Growing along creek and drainage lines is this tall shrub or small tree (up to 7 or 8m tall) of arid areas.

Red Parrot Pea

Erect shrub to 0.5 m high; stems pubescent. Leaves linear, usually 3–10 mm long, apex obtuse to acute and often recurved, smooth or rarely minutely tuberculate,

Red Parrot Pea

Erect shrub to 0.5 m high; stems pubescent. Leaves linear, usually 3–10 mm long, apex obtuse to acute and often recurved, smooth or rarely minutely tuberculate,

Red Stem Wattle

A medium sized shrub with dull green phyllodes that produce sufficient nectar from the nectary glands to be attractive to birds and insects.

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.

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,