Flowers That Start With R

10 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 10 flowers that start with R, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

Ten flowers start with R, and two of them carry most of the fame. The rose is a thorny shrub with fragrant blooms in many colors, and the rhododendron is an evergreen shrub with large clusters of bell-shaped flowers. Both are good first answers for kids.

The rest are less familiar and fun to read aloud. Ragged robin, rainbow pink and rose moss sound like characters from a picture book. There are also three orchids, including the rattlesnake orchid and the rein orchid, plus the rush aster. Spelling rhododendron is a solid challenge for older pupils.

Flowers starting with R: 10
Best known: rhododendron, rose
Longest name: rattlesnake orchid

Best-known flowers that start with R

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

rhododendron
rose

All flowers that start with R

#	Name	What it is
1	ragged orchid	fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
2	ragged robin	common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
3	rainbow pink	Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual
4	rattlesnake orchid	any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in...
5	rein orchid	any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip
6	rhododendron	evergreen shrub with large clusters of bell-shaped flowers
7	rose	thorny shrub with fragrant flowers in many colors
8	rose moss	widely cultivated in many varieties for its fleshy moss-like foliage and profusion of brightly colored flowers
9	rosita	erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States
10	rush aster	a variety of aster

Short flowers with R

rose

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with R?

This list has 10 flowers starting with R, from well-known ones like rhododendron, rose to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with R?

Well-known examples are rhododendron, rose.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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