Flowers
Every flower, one page each: what it looks like, where it grows, when it blooms and what it means. 1,096 flowers so far, best known first.
CactusCactaceae
Succulent plants with spines, native to the Americas
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Pelargonium
A diverse group of flowering plants often grown as garden and house plants
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Lampranthus
A succulent with large, vivid flowers from southern Africa
🇳🇦 Namibia and 1 more · Wildflower
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
A compact succulent with bright winter blooms from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 1 more · Garden flower
Showy stonecropHylotelephium spectabile
A pink-flowered succulent from China, popular in gardens and bouquets
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Cape aloeAloe ferox
A tall, spiny aloe from southern Africa with orange-red flowers and medicinal uses
🇱🇸 Lesotho · Wildflower
Pachypodium
A genus of succulent, spiny trees and shrubs from Madagascar and southern Africa
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 6 more · Cactus or succulent
Echinopsis
South American cacti with large, showy flowers and spiny stems
🇦🇷 Argentina and 6 more · Wildflower
Mammillaria
A diverse group of small, rounded cacti with funnel-shaped flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 5 more · Wildflower
Adenium boehmianum
A toxic succulent from arid parts of Namibia and Angola
🇳🇦 Namibia and 1 more · Wildflower
Zimbabwe AloeAloe excelsa
A tall, single-stemmed aloe from southern Africa with a crown of curved leaves
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe and 4 more · Flowering tree
Spiral aloeAloe polyphylla
A rare mountain succulent with leaves arranged in a perfect spiral
🇱🇸 Lesotho and 1 more · Cactus or succulent
Desert roseAdenium
A succulent with thick stems and bright flowers, grown as a bonsai and houseplant
🇳🇦 Namibia and 7 more · Wildflower
Impala lilyAdenium multiflorum
A winter-flowering succulent tree of southern Africa with a poisonous milky sap
Adenium multiflorum · Cactus or succulent
Ceropegia
A group of trailing or climbing plants with unusual, cage-like flowers
Ceropegia · Wildflower
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
StonecropSedum
A group of succulent plants with star-shaped flowers and fleshy leaves
Sedum · Wildflower
SaguaroCarnegiea gigantea
The towering cactus of the Sonoran Desert with white flowers and red fruit
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Desert roseAdenium obesum
A succulent shrub with bright pink to red flowers and a swollen base
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 7 more · Wildflower
Cistanthe
Small succulent wildflowers called pussypaws, found in the Americas
🇲🇽 Mexico and 3 more · Wildflower
Mesembryanthemum
A southern African succulent with sparkling, long-lasting flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Candelabra aloeAloe arborescens
A large, branching aloe with red-orange flowers and spiky green leaves
🇿🇦 South Africa and 8 more · Wildflower
Bayahibe roseLeuenbergeria quisqueyana
A leafy pink-flowered cactus from the dry forests of the Dominican Republic
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Wildflower
Gymnocalycium
Low-growing South American cacti with bright, funnel-shaped flowers
🇦🇷 Argentina and 4 more · Wildflower
Rebutia
Small, globular cacti from Bolivia and Argentina with large, showy flowers
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 1 more · Wildflower
Hedgehog cactusEchinocereus
Small ribbed cacti with bright flowers and edible fruit from the US and Mexico
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
San Pedro CactusEchinopsis pachanoi
A tall, night-blooming cactus from the Andes with white, fragrant flowers
🇵🇪 Peru and 5 more · Wildflower
Kingcup cactusEchinocereus triglochidiatus
A mound-forming cactus with bright scarlet to orange-red flowers
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Rose mossPortulaca grandiflora
A low, colourful succulent with bright flowers for sunny gardens and containers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 3 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pelargonium: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rose moss: Laogooli, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lampranthus: Bilby, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kalanchoe blossfeldiana: বাক্যবাগীশ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Showy stonecrop: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Cape aloe: iNaturalist.org (Di Turner) (Di%20Turner), CC0, source
- Pachypodium: Burge D, Mugford K, Hastings A, Agrawal A, CC BY 3.0, source
- Echinopsis: Mary Emily Eaton (1873-1961) Daniel Schweich for the filtred image., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mammillaria: Stickpen, Public domain, source
- Cactus: G. Mütrel, Leipzig ; Berlin ; Wien : F.A. Brockhaus, Public domain, source
- Adenium boehmianum: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zimbabwe Aloe: Ton Rulkens, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Spiral aloe: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Desert rose: Xocolatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Impala lily: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ceropegia: Wildfeuer, CC BY 2.5, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stonecrop: Sannse, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saguaro: Tyrv, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Desert rose: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cistanthe: Natalia Reyes Escobar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mesembryanthemum: Tigerente, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Candelabra aloe: Ton Rulkens, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bayahibe rose: Mario Guzmán, CC BY 4.0, source
- Gymnocalycium: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rebutia: Tangopaso, Public domain, source
- Hedgehog cactus: Michael Wolf, CC BY 2.5, source
- San Pedro Cactus: Betsy Lambert, CC BY 4.0, source
- Kingcup cactus: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source