Purple and violet flowers
Lavender, iris, wisteria, jacaranda and orchids.
PomegranatePunica granatum
A shrub with bright red flowers and a fruit full of edible seeds
🇮🇷 Iran and 9 more · Flowering shrub
Rhododendron
A vast group of shrubs and trees with showy blooms in many colours
🇳🇵 Nepal and 4 more · Wildflower
Crocus
Small corm-grown flowers in white, yellow, orange or purple
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Begonia
A vast group of colourful, shade-loving flowering plants from warm climates
Begonia · Wildflower
HelleboreHelleborus
A group of perennial flowers that bloom in late winter and early spring
Helleborus · Garden flower
Fowlie's PaphiopedilumPaphiopedilum fowliei
A rare slipper orchid found only in Palawan’s moist lowland forests
🇵🇭 Philippines · Wildflower
Formosa lilyLilium formosanum
A tall, white, fragrant lily native to Taiwan with trumpet-shaped blooms
🇹🇼 Taiwan and 3 more · Wildflower
Paphiopedilum insigne
A rare slipper orchid from the Khasi hills with helmet-shaped yellow flowers
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Wildflower
Iris reticulata
A small spring iris with blue or yellow flowers and a netted bulb
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 more · Wildflower
African violetSaintpaulia
A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Noble dendrobiumDendrobium nobile
A fragrant orchid with waxy blooms from the Himalayas and southern China
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Orchid
Schlumbergera
A forest cactus with jointed stems and bright flowers, grown as a holiday houseplant
🇧🇷 Brazil · Wildflower
WintersweetChimonanthus praecox
A winter-blooming shrub with fragrant yellow flowers from China
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering shrub
Hong Kong orchid treeBauhinia × blakeana
A purple-flowered tree, emblem of Hong Kong, grown for its showy blooms
🇭🇰 Hong Kong and 1 more · Flowering tree
Miltonia
Medium-large Brazilian orchids with showy, long-lasting flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Orchid
Geraldton waxChamelaucium uncinatum
A hardy Australian shrub with long-lasting white or pink flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Iris unguicularis
A winter-blooming iris with lilac or purple flowers and evergreen leaves
🇩🇿 Algeria and 4 more · Wildflower
Rhododendron dauricum
A hardy shrub with purple flowers from northeast Asia
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering shrub
Poppy anemoneAnemone coronaria
Red, white, or blue Mediterranean flower with a dark crown centre
🇮🇱 Israel and 7 more · Wildflower
Crocus cartwrightianus
A small autumn-blooming crocus from Greece with vivid red stigmas
🇬🇷 Greece · Wildflower
Big Bend bluebonnetLupinus havardii
A tall bluebonnet from the deserts and mountains of Texas and Chihuahua
Lupinus havardii · Wildflower
Pink trumpet-treeTabebuia rosea
A tall tree with pink to purple trumpet-shaped flowers, seen in parks and streets
🇲🇽 Mexico and 5 more · Flowering tree
Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum
A Southeast Asian slipper orchid with blue-green leaves and striped flowers
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Wildflower
Crocus alatavicus
A white-flowered crocus from the mountains of Central Asia and Xinjiang
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan and 3 more · Wildflower
Hepatica
A woodland perennial with three-lobed leaves and early spring flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Begonia: Juni, CC BY 2.0, source
- Pink trumpet-tree: José David Villalobos Robles, CC BY 3.0, source
- Rhododendron: Eiffel, Public domain, source
- Hellebore: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum: Secundum naturam, Public domain, source
- Crocus alatavicus: C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, source
- Hepatica: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pomegranate: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Formosa lily: Sphl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paphiopedilum insigne: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Iris reticulata: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Noble dendrobium: Maja Dumat, CC BY 2.0, source
- Schlumbergera: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wintersweet: Luigi Chiesa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hong Kong orchid tree: Ianare, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Miltonia: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Geraldton wax: No machine-readable author provided. Eug assumed (based on copyright c, CC BY 2.5, source
- Iris unguicularis: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rhododendron dauricum: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocus cartwrightianus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Big Bend bluebonnet: Adbar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source