Flowers
Every flower, one page each: what it looks like, where it grows, when it blooms and what it means. 1,243 flowers so far, best known first.
Veitch's MasdevalliaMasdevallia veitchiana
A large orange Andean orchid with iridescent purple hairs
🇵🇪 Peru · Orchid
Alpine poppyOreomecon alpina
A small mountain poppy with white to red flowers in summer
🇦🇹 Austria and 3 more · Wildflower
Iris afghanica
A rare mountain iris from Afghanistan with creamy yellow or white veined flowers
🇦🇫 Afghanistan and 2 more · Wildflower
Eightpetal mountain-avensDryas octopetala
A low evergreen with creamy white eight-petalled flowers of Arctic and alpine regions
🇮🇸 Iceland and 2 more · Wildflower
Alpine toadflaxLinaria alpina
A small violet-flowered plant of rocky European mountain slopes
🇦🇹 Austria and 7 more · Wildflower
Saxifraga cotyledon
A white-flowered saxifrage from northern and mountain regions of Europe
🇳🇴 Norway and 1 more · Wildflower
Favratia zoysii
A rare alpine bellflower with a star-shaped mouth, found in the Alps
🇸🇮 Slovenia and 2 more · Wildflower
Mount Cook buttercupRanunculus lyallii
New Zealand’s giant white buttercup with lily-like leaves
🇳🇿 New Zealand · Wildflower
Livelong saxifrageSaxifraga paniculata
A hardy alpine plant with white flowers and lime-dusted leaves
🇨🇭 Switzerland and 2 more · Alpine flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Veitch's Masdevallia: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Alpine poppy: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eightpetal mountain-avens: Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Alpine toadflax: Björn S., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saxifraga cotyledon: Banangraut, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Favratia zoysii: Johan N, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mount Cook buttercup: Peter de Lange, CC0, source
- Livelong saxifrage: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source