Cut flowers
Grown for the vase, the bouquet and the flower market.
Doubtful knight's-spurConsolida ajacis
Tall garden annual with spikes of blue, pink or white flowers
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Consolida
Annual larkspurs grown for their spurred flowers in pink, blue, purple and white
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Wildflower
Cleome houtteana
Tall annual with pink, purple, or white flowers and long, whisker-like stamens
🇦🇷 Argentina and 5 more · Garden flower
Schizanthus
Ferny-leaved annuals with butterfly-like flowers from Chile and Argentina
🇨🇱 Chile and 4 more · Wildflower
Blazing starLiatris
Tall North American wildflowers with feathery purple or pink flower spikes
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Wildflower
Helenium
Tall daisy-like flowers in yellow and orange, once used to make sneeze-inducing snuff
Helenium · Wildflower
Painted daisyTanacetum coccineum
A colourful daisy grown for gardens and natural insect repellent
🇮🇷 Iran and 8 more · Wildflower
Barberton daisyGerbera jamesonii
The bright daisy from South Africa, ancestor of all cultivated gerberas
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Elegant zinniaZinnia elegans
A bright annual garden flower from Mexico with many colourful forms
🇲🇽 Mexico and 5 more · Garden flower
Begonia × tuberhybrida
Hybrid begonias grown for their large, colourful flowers from tubers
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Garden flower
Zonal geraniumPelargonium × hortorum
The classic potted and bedding plant with rounded leaves and ball-shaped flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Garden flower
Petunia × atkinsiana
The hybrid garden petunia grown for its colourful, trumpet-shaped blooms
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
BlueminkAgeratum houstonianum
A fluffy blue annual often grown in garden borders and balcony boxes
🇬🇹 Guatemala and 7 more · Wildflower
Phlox
A North American genus with bright, fragrant blooms from spring to fall
Phlox · Wildflower
Disa
A genus of red-flowered orchids from Africa, some grown as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Sweet WilliamDianthus barbatus
A garden flower with clusters of colourful, spicy-scented blooms
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Stargazer lilyLilium 'Stargazer'
A sky-facing, fragrant hybrid lily first bred in California in 1974
Lilium 'Stargazer' · Garden flower
Garden heliotropeHeliotropium arborescens
A bushy shrub with fragrant purple flower clusters from the Andes
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 3 more · Garden flower
Jasmine tobaccoNicotiana alata
A fragrant night-blooming tobacco grown for its showy flowers
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Garden flower
Love-in-a-mistNigella damascena
A lacy blue annual with misty bracts and balloon-like seed pods
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Garden flower
Shasta daisyLeucanthemum × superbum
A white-petalled garden daisy created by crossing several wild species
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Tenweeks stockMatthiola incana
A fragrant garden flower in many colours, grown for beds and bouquets
🇪🇸 Spain and 4 more · Garden flower
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
WallflowerErysimum
A group of bright, often fragrant flowers found wild and in gardens worldwide
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 more · Wildflower
Sea lavenderLimonium
Salt-tolerant wildflowers with papery blooms, known as statice or sea lavender
Limonium · Wildflower
SnapdragonAntirrhinum
Garden flowers with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇩🇪 Germany and 4 more · Garden flower
Kangaroo paw
Unusual tubular flowers from south-western Australia, shaped like a kangaroo’s paw
🇦🇺 Australia and 3 more · Wildflower
HollyhockAlcea rosea
A tall garden flower with large, colourful blooms from China
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Schlumbergera
A forest cactus with jointed stems and bright flowers, grown as a holiday houseplant
🇧🇷 Brazil · Wildflower
Tahitian gardeniaGardenia taitensis
A fragrant white flower woven into Pacific island garlands and oils
🇹🇴 Tonga and 1 more · Garden flower
Common snapdragonAntirrhinum majus
A tall garden flower with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇫🇷 France and 2 more · Garden flower
Black-eyed SusanRudbeckia hirta
A daisy-like wildflower with a dark centre and bright yellow petals
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
ThriftArmeria maritima
A low-growing perennial with pink globe-shaped blooms found near coasts and in gardens
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Sasanqua camelliaCamellia sasanqua
An evergreen shrub with winter flowers and fragrant petals, native to southern Japan
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering shrub
Cape jasmineGardenia jasminoides
A glossy-leaved shrub with large, fragrant white flowers from East Asia
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Paperwhite narcissusNarcissus papyraceus
A white, fragrant daffodil from the Mediterranean grown indoors for winter bloom
🇬🇷 Greece and 3 more · Bulb flower
Bush lilyClivia miniata
A shade-loving plant with orange, red or yellow funnel-shaped blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Garden hyacinthHyacinthus orientalis
A spring bulb with dense, fragrant flower clusters in many colours
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Garden flower
Hippeastrum
Large-flowered bulb plants from the Americas, often called amaryllis
Hippeastrum · Bulb flower
Proteasuikerbos
Large-headed South African flowers called sugarbushes, with many wild species
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Geraldton waxChamelaucium uncinatum
A hardy Australian shrub with long-lasting white or pink flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
New South Wales waratahTelopea speciosissima
Large red flowered shrub and emblem of New South Wales, Australia
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 more · Wildflower
Vandaवन्दाका
A tropical orchid genus prized for its vivid, long-lasting flowers
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Wildflower
Leucospermum
Evergreen shrubs with bright, spiky flower heads called pincushions
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
Heliconia
Tropical plants with bold, colorful bracts and banana-like leaves
Heliconia · Wildflower
China asterCallistephus chinensis
A showy garden flower from China with many colorful cultivated forms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Garden flower
Floribunda rose
A garden rose group with many blooms in clusters
Garden flower
Protea magnifica
A mountain shrub from South Africa with large, showy flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Red Disa: Michael Gäbler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Doubtful knight's-spur: Alberto Salguero, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Consolida: Picture taken by BerndH, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Cleome houtteana: Wiki Farazi, CC0, source
- Schizanthus: Penarc, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blazing star: Chrumps, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Helenium: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Painted daisy: kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Barberton daisy: Rooivos, Public domain, source
- Elegant zinnia: Simon Koopmann, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, source
- Begonia × tuberhybrida: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Zonal geranium: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Petunia × atkinsiana: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bluemink: Harry Alverson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Phlox: Atilin, Public domain, source
- Sweet William: Benjamin Zwittnig, CC BY 2.5 si, source
- Stargazer lily: The original uploader was Skarg at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.5, source
- Garden heliotrope: Photo (c)2006 Derek Ramsey ( Ram-Man ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Jasmine tobacco: Carl E Lewis, CC BY 2.0, source
- Love-in-a-mist: Kaldari, Public domain, source
- Shasta daisy: Captain-tucker, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tenweeks stock: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wallflower: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sea lavender: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Snapdragon: Sabina Bajracharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kangaroo paw: Gnan garra, CC BY 2.5 au, source
- Hollyhock: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Schlumbergera: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tahitian gardenia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common snapdragon: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Black-eyed Susan: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Thrift: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cape jasmine: Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paperwhite narcissus: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bush lily: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Garden hyacinth: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hippeastrum: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Protea: Andrew massyn, Public domain, source
- Geraldton wax: No machine-readable author provided. Eug assumed (based on copyright c, CC BY 2.5, source
- New South Wales waratah: Casliber, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vanda: The original uploader was Lithiumscream at English Wikipedia ., Attribution, source
- Leucospermum: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Heliconia: Justin Lebar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- China aster: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Floribunda rose: Anna reg, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Protea magnifica: Dinkum, CC0, source