Many-coloured flowers
Pansies, lantana, bougainvillea, zinnias and parrot tulips.
Tillandsia
Rootless plants that live on trees, rock and air, grown as house plants
🇲🇽 Mexico and 2 more · Tropical flower
Hosta
Shade-loving perennial with bold leaves and summer flower spikes
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Garden flower
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
Sweet WilliamDianthus barbatus
A garden flower with clusters of colourful, spicy-scented blooms
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Amaryllis
A South African bulb with pink or white funnel-shaped blooms on bare stems
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Bulb flower
BlanketflowerGaillardia
A daisy-like wildflower with bold, blanket-patterned blooms
🇲🇽 Mexico and 2 more · Wildflower
Jasmine tobaccoNicotiana alata
A fragrant night-blooming tobacco grown for its showy flowers
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Garden flower
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
NasturtiumTropaeolum
A South American genus with bright, edible flowers and rounded leaves
🇨🇱 Chile and 3 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
Cistanthe
Small succulent wildflowers called pussypaws, found in the Americas
🇲🇽 Mexico and 3 more · Wildflower
Hippeastrum
Large-flowered bulb plants from the Americas, often called amaryllis
Hippeastrum · Bulb flower
Grevillea
Evergreen shrubs and trees with distinctive spider-like flowers
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 more · Wildflower
Agapanthus
Blue to white summer flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide in gardens
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Scarlet sageSalvia splendens
A bright bedding plant with spikes of red, white, or purple flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Garden flower
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
Gladiolus dalenii
A wild gladiolus with tall spikes of yellow to scarlet flowers
Gladiolus dalenii · Wildflower
White rose of YorkRosa × alba
A cold-hardy old garden rose with white or pink many-petalled blooms
🇸🇪 Sweden and 4 more · Flowering shrub
ArctotisGousblom
A group of daisy-like flowers from southern Africa grown for their bright blooms
Arctotis · Wildflower
Dame's-violetHesperis matronalis
A tall, fragrant flower with purple, pink, or white blooms in spring
🇪🇸 Spain and 4 more · Wildflower
Neoregelia
Epiphytic bromeliads with colorful rosettes and water-holding leaf cups
Neoregelia · Wildflower
Sinningia
Tuberous flowering plants from Central and South America, grown for their bright blooms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Wildflower
Calathea
Tropical houseplant with striking patterned leaves and folding foliage
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Wildflower
Cattleya purpurata
A Brazilian orchid with large, fragrant flowers in many color forms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Orchid
TuberosePolianthes tuberosa
A highly fragrant white flower grown from tuberous roots, prized for perfume and decoration
🇲🇽 Mexico and 2 more · Garden flower
Costus
Tropical plants with coiled stems and edible or medicinal flowers
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 2 more · Herb or useful flower
Santa Cruz water lilyVictoria cruziana
A giant South American water lily with heat-producing pink-and-white flowers
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 3 more · Water flower
Common pagodaMimetes cucullatus
A Cape shrub whose scarlet hooded leaves crown each flower head
Mimetes cucullatus · Flowering shrub
LisianthusEustoma
A small gentian genus grown as the long-lasting cut flower lisianthus
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Cut flower
Gerbera
Bright daisy-like blooms from South Africa, popular in gardens and bouquets
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Herb or useful flower
BladderwortUtricularia
A carnivorous plant with snapdragon-like flowers and underwater suction traps
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Odontoglossum
A cool-growing cloud forest orchid genus, now folded into Oncidium
🇬🇾 Guyana · Orchid
Curled OncidiumOncidium alexandrae
A cool-growing Colombian orchid with crisped white or rose flowers
🇨🇴 Colombia · Orchid
Sturt's desert peaSwainsona formosa
Australia’s striking red desert wildflower with a black-centred bloom
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Hairpin banksiaBanksia spinulosa
A shrub with hooked-style golden flower spikes from eastern Australia
🇦🇺 Australia · Flowering shrub
Greenhood orchidPterostylis
A genus of hooded terrestrial orchids from Australia and nearby islands
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 more · Wildflower
Donkey orchidDiuris
Australian orchids with ear-like petals and dangling sepals
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Giant waterlilyNymphaea gigantea
A large aquatic lily with floating leaves and day-blooming blue flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Water flower
Wonga wonga vinePandorea pandorana
A climbing Australian vine with white, purple-marked flowers
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Climber
Swainsona
Australian native legumes with purple pea-like flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
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
Cuthbertson's DendrobiumDendrobium cuthbertsonii
A tiny high-altitude orchid with flowers that last up to ten months
Dendrobium cuthbertsonii · Orchid
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dancing-lady orchid: Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hanakotoba: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tillandsia: JLPC, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hosta: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Petunia × atkinsiana: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Leopard orchid: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet William: Benjamin Zwittnig, CC BY 2.5 si, source
- Blanketflower: Photograph taken by and (c)2007 Johnathan J. Stegeman ( Midimacman ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jasmine tobacco: Carl E Lewis, CC BY 2.0, 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
- Nasturtium: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common snapdragon: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cistanthe: Natalia Reyes Escobar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hippeastrum: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Grevillea: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Agapanthus: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Scarlet sage: Lucky7879613459, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Primrose: mattbuck ( category ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gladiolus dalenii: Herbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI), CC BY 4.0, source
- White rose of York: A. Barra, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arctotis: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dame's-violet: AnRo0002, CC0, source
- Neoregelia: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sinningia: Andy king50, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Calathea: Serenity, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cattleya purpurata: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, source
- Tuberose: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Costus: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Santa Cruz water lily: Jayme Bastos, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common pagoda: Dwergenpaartje, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lisianthus: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Gerbera: Novita Saulina Sitohang, CC BY 4.0, source
- Bladderwort: Show_ryu, CC BY 3.0, source
- Curled Oncidium: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sturt's desert pea: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 70-200mm f/2.8, GFDL 1.2, source
- Hairpin banksia: Cas Liber, Public domain, source
- Greenhood orchid: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Donkey orchid: Gnangarra, CC BY 2.5 au, source
- Giant waterlily: botanygirl, CC BY 4.0, 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
- Cuthbertson's Dendrobium: Alfindra Primaldhi, CC BY 2.0, source