| Common Name: | Wiry Bauera, River or Dog Rose |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Cunoniaceae |
| Size: | 1-2m x 1-2m |
| Description: | Wiry, densely scrambling hairy shrub. |
| Leaves: | Pairs of leaves divided into 3 narrow, toothed, stalkless leaflets, appearing as a ring of 6 leaves. Leaflets to 12mm long. |
| Flowering: | Masses of cup-shaped to open flowers on long stalks. |
| Flower Colour: | Pink to white |
| Flowering Time: | most of the year especially spring-summer |
| Growing Conditions: | Moist soils, tolerating brief winter inundation in heathland and heathy forest. Frost and snow tolerant. Partial, dappled and full shade. |
| Garden Use: | Excellent understorey plant for moist shady gardens with a good display of flowers. Prostrate forms are also available commercially. Provide a good living mulch. |
| Related Species: | |
| Plant Communities: | 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 30, 32 |
| Conservation Status: | Locally common within its preferred growing conditions |
| Aboriginal Use: | |
| Commercially available: | Australian plant & indigenous nurseries |
| Bird Attracting: | No |
| Butterfly Attracting: | No |
| Frog Habitat: | No |
| Photographer: | 1 Peter Kinchington ©; 2, 3 Marilyn Gray © |