🇱🇧 The flowers of Lebanon
12 pages from Lebanon: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 2 cities and regions.
Cities and regions of Lebanon
FennelFoeniculum vulgare
A tall, aromatic herb with feathery leaves and yellow umbels, used for food and spice
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Herb or useful flower
HyacinthHyacinthus
A spring-blooming bulb with fragrant, colourful flower spikes
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Bulb flower
SnowdropGalanthus
White bell-shaped flowers that bloom at the end of winter
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Orchis
A group of wild orchids with tuberous roots from Europe, North Africa and Asia
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Fritillaria persica
A tall bulb plant with deep purple to greenish-brown bell flowers from the Middle East
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Mourning irisIris susiana
A rare iris with large, spotted flowers once found in the mountains of the Middle East
🇱🇧 Lebanon and 2 more · Wildflower
Iris cedretiسوسن الأرز
A rare white and maroon iris found only on Lebanon’s mountain slopes
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Wildflower
Tulipa agenensis
A wild red tulip from the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 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
Paeonia daurica
A wild peony with many forms, native from the Balkans to Iran
🇬🇪 Georgia and 7 more · Wildflower
Garden hyacinthHyacinthus orientalis
A spring bulb with dense, fragrant flower clusters in many colours
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Snowdrop: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Fennel: Elekes Andor, CC BY 4.0, source
- Hyacinth: The wub, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Orchis: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Fritillaria persica: Gideon Pisanty ( Gidip ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tulipa agenensis: Zachi Evenor and MathKnight, CC BY 3.0, source
- Iris lortetii: שרה גולד, CC BY 2.5, source
- Nazareth Iris: Zachi Evenor, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mourning iris: Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627), Public domain, source
- Paeonia daurica: Orjen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Garden hyacinth: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, source