🇦🇹 The flowers of Austria
38 pages from Austria: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 5 cities and regions.
The flowers, flower customs and flower places of Austria on Phool. An overview of the country's plant life has not been written yet.
Cities and regions of Austria
RapeseedBrassica napus
A yellow-flowered crop grown for its oil-rich seeds and protein meal
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
CornflowerCentaurea cyanus
A bright blue wildflower once common in European grain fields
🇩🇪 Germany and 7 more · Wildflower
EdelweissLeontopodium nivale
A woolly white star-shaped flower of the European mountains
🇦🇹 Austria and 5 more · Wildflower
Scarlet runner beanPhaseolus coccineus
A climbing bean with bright red flowers and edible pods and seeds
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Alpine toadflaxLinaria alpina
A small violet-flowered plant of rocky European mountain slopes
🇦🇹 Austria and 7 more · Wildflower
Aquilegia alpina
A rare blue-flowered columbine from the Alps
🇫🇷 France and 3 more · Wildflower
MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria
A tall, sweet-scented wildflower of damp meadows in Europe and western Asia
🇦🇹 Austria · Wildflower
Decoration
Maypole
A tall decorated pole at the heart of spring and summer festivals in Europe
🇩🇪 Germany and 6 more · Custom
Hungarian gentianGentiana pannonica
A mountain wildflower with reddish-violet, spotted bell-shaped blooms
🇦🇹 Austria and 2 more · Wildflower
Favratia zoysii
A rare alpine bellflower with a star-shaped mouth, found in the Alps
🇸🇮 Slovenia and 2 more · Wildflower
Siberian irisIris sibirica
A blue-flowered iris from Europe and Central Asia, grown in gardens worldwide
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Wildflower
Garden rose
The classic ornamental flowering shrub of gardens worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Garden flower
Decoration
Corpus Christi flower wreathsCorpus Domini
Floral wreaths for a Catholic feast of the Eucharist
🇪🇸 Spain and 7 more · Garland or wreath, May to Jun
ColumbineAquilegia vulgaris
A nodding blue or purple wildflower with spurred petals, known as granny’s bonnet
🇫🇷 France and 5 more · Wildflower
Alpine poppyOreomecon alpina
A small mountain poppy with white to red flowers in summer
🇦🇹 Austria and 3 more · Wildflower
Place
Volksgarten
A historic public park in central Vienna with over 3,000 rose bushes
Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria · Flower garden
Cross-leaved HeathErica tetralix
A pink-flowered heather of bogs and wet heaths in western Europe
🇵🇹 Portugal 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.
- Leontopodium: Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Meadowsweet: AnRo0002, CC0, source
- Alpine poppy: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cornflower: TeunSpaans, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rapeseed: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Volksgarten: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cross-leaved Heath: Christian Fischer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Scarlet runner bean: Mickaël Schauli, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Columbine: Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Alpine toadflax: Björn S., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aquilegia alpina: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Maypole: Uploaded by Mikael Häggström, CC0, source
- Hungarian gentian: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Favratia zoysii: Johan N, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Siberian iris: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garden rose: Laitche, Public domain, source
- Corpus Christi flower wreaths: Fennec ., Public domain, source