Many-coloured flowers
Pansies, lantana, bougainvillea, zinnias and parrot tulips.
TulipTulipa
Spring-blooming bulbs with showy, cup-shaped flowers in many colours
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 7 more · Wildflower
Narcissus
Spring-flowering bulbs with trumpet-shaped blooms in white, yellow, and orange
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
Common poppyPapaver rhoeas
The vivid red wildflower of fields and remembrance
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Wild PansyViola tricolor
A small wildflower with purple, yellow, and white blooms found across Eurasia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Wildflower
ColumbineAquilegia
A perennial wildflower with spurred, often blue or multicoloured blooms
Aquilegia · Wildflower
LantanaLantana camara
A colourful shrub with clusters of small, changing flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 9 more · Flowering shrub
HelleboreHelleborus
A group of perennial flowers that bloom in late winter and early spring
Helleborus · Garden flower
Petunia
A South American garden flower with trumpet-shaped blooms in many colours
Petunia · Garden flower
Wyoming paintbrushCastilleja linariifolia
The tall, red-tipped wildflower that is Wyoming’s state flower
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Spring starflowerIpheion uniflorum
A small blue spring bulb with star-shaped, honey-scented flowers
🇦🇷 Argentina and 5 more · Bulb flower
Blue morning gloryIpomoea indica
A fast-growing vine with vivid blue funnel flowers that fade to pink by dusk
🇺🇸 United States and 7 more · Climber
Iris lactea白花马蔺
A hardy wild iris with pale blue to violet blooms from central Asia
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Wildflower
Iris cedretiسوسن الأرز
A rare white and maroon iris found only on Lebanon’s mountain slopes
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Wildflower
Delavay's tree peonyPaeonia delavayi
A woody peony from China with flowers in red, yellow, or other shades
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Petra irisIris petrana
A rare desert iris with deep burgundy to nearly black spring flowers
🇯🇴 Jordan and 2 more · Wildflower
Iris lortetiiאִירוּס הָדוּר
A rare pink-veined iris from rocky slopes in Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine
🇮🇱 Israel and 3 more · Wildflower
Nazareth IrisIris bismarckiana
A rare mountain iris with veined pale flowers from Israel and Lebanon
🇮🇱 Israel and 3 more · Wildflower
Iberian irisIris iberica
A rare, boldly veined iris from the Caucasus steppes
🇬🇪 Georgia and 4 more · Wildflower
Helianthemum
A group of small, sun-loving flowers called rock roses or sunroses
Helianthemum · Wildflower
Petunia × atkinsiana
The hybrid garden petunia grown for its colourful, trumpet-shaped blooms
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Leopard orchidAnsellia africana
A large African orchid with spotted yellow flowers and basket-like roots
Ansellia africana · Orchid
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
WallflowerErysimum
A group of bright, often fragrant flowers found wild and in gardens worldwide
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 more · Wildflower
SnapdragonAntirrhinum
Garden flowers with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇩🇪 Germany and 4 more · Garden flower
Common snapdragonAntirrhinum majus
A tall garden flower with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇫🇷 France and 2 more · Garden flower
Sasanqua camelliaCamellia sasanqua
An evergreen shrub with winter flowers and fragrant petals, native to southern Japan
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering shrub
PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
A pale yellow spring flower of woods and hedgerows across Europe and North Africa
🇦🇹 Austria and 7 more · Wildflower
Poppy anemoneAnemone coronaria
Red, white, or blue Mediterranean flower with a dark crown centre
🇮🇱 Israel and 7 more · Wildflower
Dame's-violetHesperis matronalis
A tall, fragrant flower with purple, pink, or white blooms in spring
🇪🇸 Spain and 4 more · Wildflower
Cattleya purpurata
A Brazilian orchid with large, fragrant flowers in many color forms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Orchid
Curled OncidiumOncidium alexandrae
A cool-growing Colombian orchid with crisped white or rose flowers
🇨🇴 Colombia · Orchid
Wonga wonga vinePandorea pandorana
A climbing Australian vine with white, purple-marked flowers
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Climber
Livingstone daisyCleretum bellidiforme
A succulent annual with iridescent daisy-like flowers from South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cactus or succulent
Garden rose
The classic ornamental flowering shrub of gardens worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Garden flower
Nematanthus
A trailing Brazilian plant with pouch-shaped flowers that resemble goldfish
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Garden flower
Japanese irisIris laevigata
A water-loving Japanese iris with violet-blue blooms and historic garden ties
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Water flower
Silver cock's combCelosia argentea
A tropical annual with feathery, vivid flower spikes
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Garden flower
Daphne
A genus of fragrant-flowered shrubs with colourful, poisonous berries
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Flowering shrub
Moutan peonyPaeonia × suffruticosa
The woody peony of China with large, showy spring flowers
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Flowering shrub
CamelliaCamellia japonica
A flowering shrub or small tree with rose-like blooms in red, pink or white
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Golden everlastingXerochrysum bracteatum
Papery yellow or white daisy flowers native to Australia, lasting long after picking
🇦🇺 Australia and 6 more · Wildflower
Water-lily tulipTulipa kaufmanniana
A dwarf tulip from Central Asia with star-shaped flowers
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan and 6 more · Wildflower
Common LilacSyringa vulgaris
A spring-flowering shrub with fragrant purple or white blooms
🇷🇸 Serbia and 4 more · Garden flower
Sparaxis
Spring-flowering bulbs from South Africa with striking six-petalled blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
YellowhornXanthoceras sorbifolium
A hardy flowering tree from northern China with edible seeds and fragrant white blooms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering tree
Lesser celandineFicaria verna
A low spring flower with shiny yellow petals and heart-shaped leaves
Ficaria verna · Wildflower
Protea neriifolia
A South African shrub with cone-shaped flower heads and hairy-tipped bracts
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Moutan peony: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Golden everlasting: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Water-lily tulip: Retired electrician, CC0, source
- Common Lilac: Nedelin, CC BY 2.5, source
- Hellebore: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sparaxis: Ixitixel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yellowhorn: Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), Public domain, source
- Lesser celandine: AnRo0002, CC0, source
- Protea neriifolia: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, source
- Wyoming paintbrush: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Spring starflower: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue morning glory: Paulo rsmenezes, CC BY-SA 3.0 br, source
- Tulip: John O'Neill, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Narcissus: Uberprutser, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wild Pansy: Kim Hansen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Columbine: Python (Peter Rühr), CC BY 3.0, source
- Petunia: Unknown author, GFDL 1.2, source
- Iris lactea: peganum, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Delavay's tree peony: Epibase, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Petra iris: Anas A. Emad, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Iris lortetii: שרה גולד, CC BY 2.5, source
- Nazareth Iris: Zachi Evenor, CC BY 2.0, source
- Common poppy: Kieran Roy Powell, CC BY 4.0, source
- Lantana: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Helianthemum: Daniel Ballmer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Petunia × atkinsiana: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Leopard orchid: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wallflower: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Snapdragon: Sabina Bajracharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common snapdragon: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Primrose: mattbuck ( category ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dame's-violet: AnRo0002, CC0, source
- Cattleya purpurata: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, source
- Curled Oncidium: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Wonga wonga vine: Tatiana Gerus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Livingstone daisy: Winfried Bruenken ( Amrum ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Garden rose: Laitche, Public domain, source
- Nematanthus: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Japanese iris: Dennis L. Lindwall, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Silver cock's comb: Quadell ( talk ) ( Uploads ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Daphne: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Camellia: Qwert1234, CC BY-SA 3.0, source