Blue flowers
Cornflower, gentian, bluebells, delphinium and the Himalayan poppy.
Blue orchidVanda coerulea
A rare orchid with long-lasting bluish purple flowers from Northeast India and Yunnan
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Orchid
Cooktown orchidDendrobium bigibbum
A lilac-purple orchid from Queensland, the floral emblem of the state
🇦🇺 Australia and 1 more · Wildflower
Grey orchidVanda tessellata
A yellow and brown checkered orchid from the Indian subcontinent to Indochina
🇮🇳 India · Wildflower
Early spider-orchidOphrys sphegodes
A wild orchid with spider-like flowers found across Europe and the Middle East
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 more · Wildflower
Cattleya trianae
The national orchid of Colombia with petals in the flag’s colours
🇨🇴 Colombia · Wildflower
Cattleya purpurata
A Brazilian orchid with large, fragrant flowers in many color forms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Orchid
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Blue orchid: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cooktown orchid: No machine-readable author provided. John Hill assumed (based on copyr, CC BY 2.5, source
- Grey orchid: Designer:M. Hart - Engraver: J. Watts, Public domain, source
- Early spider-orchid: Velela, CC BY 2.5, source
- Cattleya purpurata: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, source