Many-coloured flowers
Pansies, lantana, bougainvillea, zinnias and parrot tulips.
Common poppyPapaver rhoeas
The vivid red wildflower of fields and remembrance
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Plumeria
Fragrant tropical tree with waxy, five-petaled flowers in many colours
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Flowering tree
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
Marvel of PeruMirabilis jalapa
Evening-blooming garden flower with many colours on one plant
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Garden flower
Petunia
A South American garden flower with trumpet-shaped blooms in many colours
Petunia · Garden flower
Veitch's MasdevalliaMasdevallia veitchiana
A large orange Andean orchid with iridescent purple hairs
🇵🇪 Peru · Orchid
MashuaTropaeolum tuberosum
An Andean climbing plant with edible tubers and bright bi-coloured flowers
🇵🇪 Peru and 3 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
Ipomoea nil
A twining annual vine with trumpet-shaped blooms in many colors
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Garden flower
Helianthemum
A group of small, sun-loving flowers called rock roses or sunroses
Helianthemum · Wildflower
Shrubby CinquefoilDasiphora fruticosa
A hardy yellow-flowered shrub found in cool northern regions
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
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
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
Common snapdragonAntirrhinum majus
A tall garden flower with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇫🇷 France and 2 more · Garden flower
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
White rose of YorkRosa × alba
A cold-hardy old garden rose with white or pink many-petalled blooms
🇸🇪 Sweden and 4 more · Flowering shrub
Dame's-violetHesperis matronalis
A tall, fragrant flower with purple, pink, or white blooms in spring
🇪🇸 Spain and 4 more · 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
LisianthusEustoma
A small gentian genus grown as the long-lasting cut flower lisianthus
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Cut flower
Golden everlastingXerochrysum bracteatum
Papery yellow or white daisy flowers native to Australia, lasting long after picking
🇦🇺 Australia and 6 more · Wildflower
White pasqueflowerPulsatilla occidentalis
A spring-blooming wildflower with white or pale purple sepals
Pulsatilla occidentalis · Wildflower
Lampranthus
A succulent with large, vivid flowers from southern Africa
🇳🇦 Namibia and 1 more · Wildflower
Protea neriifolia
A South African shrub with cone-shaped flower heads and hairy-tipped bracts
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
Wyoming paintbrushCastilleja linariifolia
The tall, red-tipped wildflower that is Wyoming’s state flower
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Tigridia pavonia
A striking summer bulb with three-petalled blooms and bold central markings
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Plumeria: Renesis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Golden everlasting: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- White pasqueflower: Bordgious, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lampranthus: Bilby, CC BY 3.0, source
- Protea neriifolia: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, source
- Wyoming paintbrush: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tigridia pavonia: Lorbeer, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, source
- Veitch's Masdevallia: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mashua: Håkan Svensson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wild Pansy: Kim Hansen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Columbine: Python (Peter Rühr), CC BY 3.0, source
- Marvel of Peru: Khalid Mahmood at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Petunia: Unknown author, GFDL 1.2, source
- Iris lactea: peganum, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Common poppy: Kieran Roy Powell, CC BY 4.0, source
- Lantana: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ipomoea nil: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Helianthemum: Daniel Ballmer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shrubby Cinquefoil: Ivar Leidus, 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
- 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
- Common snapdragon: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Agapanthus: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Scarlet sage: Lucky7879613459, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- White rose of York: A. Barra, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dame's-violet: AnRo0002, CC0, 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
- Lisianthus: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.0, source