Blue flowers
Cornflower, gentian, bluebells, delphinium and the Himalayan poppy.
RosemarySalvia rosmarinus
A fragrant evergreen shrub with needle-like leaves and purple, blue, or white flowers
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 more · Flowering shrub
Hibiscus
A tropical genus with large, colourful trumpet-shaped flowers
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Wildflower
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
A spiny shrub with white spring flowers and tart blue-black fruit
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
ElderSambucus
A group of shrubs and small trees with clusters of white flowers and dark berries
Sambucus · Wildflower
Rhododendron
A vast group of shrubs and trees with showy blooms in many colours
🇳🇵 Nepal and 4 more · Wildflower
Hydrangea
Flowering shrubs with large heads that change color with soil pH
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Flowering shrub
DogwoodCornus
Woody trees and shrubs with showy bracts and colorful berries
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Butterfly BushBuddleja
Shrubs and small trees with nectar-rich flowers that draw butterflies
Buddleja · Wildflower
Common LilacSyringa vulgaris
A spring-flowering shrub with fragrant purple or white blooms
🇷🇸 Serbia and 4 more · Garden flower
Plumbago
A group of shrubs and herbs with blue, white, or pink flowers
Plumbago · Wildflower
Pride of MadeiraEchium candicans
A tall blue-flowered shrub native to Madeira, grown in gardens worldwide
🇦🇺 Australia and 1 more · Wildflower
NeelakurinjiStrobilanthes kunthiana
A blue-purple shrub that blooms once every 12 years in South India's hills
🇮🇳 India · Wildflower
Fuchsia
Shrubs and small trees with pendulous, colourful flowers from the Americas and Pacific
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Mountain hydrangeaHydrangea serrata
A compact shrub with blue or pink lacy flower clusters from Korea and Japan
🇯🇵 Japan · Flowering shrub
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rhododendron: Eiffel, Public domain, source
- Common Lilac: Nedelin, CC BY 2.5, source
- Butterfly Bush: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dogwood: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hydrangea: 3268zauber, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rosemary: Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, CC BY 2.0, source
- Blackthorn: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Elder: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hibiscus: Marshman at en.wikipedia / Eric Guinther, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Plumbago: No machine-readable author provided. Calvin Teo assumed (based on copy, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Pride of Madeira: No machine-readable author provided. Velela assumed (based on copyrigh, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Neelakurinji: Suresh Krishna, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Fuchsia: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mountain hydrangea: Laitche, Public domain, source