Cut flowers
Grown for the vase, the bouquet and the flower market.
Gypsophila
A group of delicate, small-flowered plants known as baby's-breath
🇹🇷 Turkey and 2 more · Wildflower
Red pincushion-proteaLeucospermum cordifolium
A South African shrub with bright, pincushion-like flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Easter lilyLilium longiflorum
White, trumpet-shaped lily known for its role in Easter celebrations
🇯🇵 Japan and 3 more · Garden flower
Chinese peonyPaeonia lactiflora
A fragrant perennial with large white, pink, or crimson flowers from Asia
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Poppy anemoneAnemone coronaria
Red, white, or blue Mediterranean flower with a dark crown centre
🇮🇱 Israel and 7 more · Wildflower
Cabbage roseRosa × centifolia
A highly scented old rose grown for perfume and gardens
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Damask roseRosa × damascena
A fragrant pink rose grown for oil, water, and sweets in West and South Asia
🇮🇷 Iran and 6 more · Garden flower
French roseRosa gallica
A fragrant old rose with deep pink blooms, once central to European gardens
Rosa gallica · Wildflower
Didier's tulipTulipa gesneriana
The classic tall tulip behind most garden and cut-flower varieties
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Common jasmineJasminum officinale
A climbing plant with white, fragrant flowers grown in gardens and for perfume
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 7 more · Garden flower
Gladiolus alatus
A small South African gladiolus with bright orange, sweet-scented flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
ArctotisGousblom
A group of daisy-like flowers from southern Africa grown for their bright blooms
Arctotis · Wildflower
Banksia
Australian wildflowers with tall flower spikes and woody cones
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
FeatherflowerVerticordia
Woody Australian shrubs with feathery, colourful flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Ivy-leaved geraniumPelargonium peltatum
A trailing plant with fleshy, lobed leaves and pale mauve to pink flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Sweet mock orangePhiladelphus coronarius
A fragrant white-flowered shrub from the Caucasus and Turkey, grown in gardens
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Neoregelia
Epiphytic bromeliads with colorful rosettes and water-holding leaf cups
Neoregelia · Wildflower
Stephanotis floribunda
A tropical vine with clusters of fragrant white, waxy flowers from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Globe amaranthGomphrena globosa
A round-flowered annual grown for its lasting, colorful blooms
🇬🇹 Guatemala and 4 more · Wildflower
Garden cosmosCosmos bipinnatus
A tall annual with feathery leaves and pink, purple or white daisy-like flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
TuberosePolianthes tuberosa
A highly fragrant white flower grown from tuberous roots, prized for perfume and decoration
🇲🇽 Mexico and 2 more · Garden flower
Big Bend bluebonnetLupinus havardii
A tall bluebonnet from the deserts and mountains of Texas and Chihuahua
Lupinus havardii · Wildflower
Mexican bush sageSalvia leucantha
A velvety purple-flowered sage from Mexico, grown for its showy garden blooms
🇲🇽 Mexico · Garden flower
Garden dahliaDahlia pinnata
A showy perennial with pink to deep purple blooms, grown in gardens worldwide
🇲🇽 Mexico and 4 more · Garden flower
Purple coneflowerEchinacea purpurea
A North American wildflower with purple-pink petals and a spiny central cone
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Common pagodaMimetes cucullatus
A Cape shrub whose scarlet hooded leaves crown each flower head
Mimetes cucullatus · Flowering shrub
LisianthusEustoma
A small gentian genus grown as the long-lasting cut flower lisianthus
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Cut flower
Gerbera
Bright daisy-like blooms from South Africa, popular in gardens and bouquets
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Herb or useful flower
Hooker's banksiaBanksia hookeriana
A tall shrub with bright orange flower spikes from Western Australia
🇦🇺 Australia · Flowering shrub
Garden rose
The classic ornamental flowering shrub of gardens worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Garden flower
Persian buttercupRanunculus asiaticus
A garden favourite with layered petals in vivid red, pink, yellow or white
🇵🇸 Palestine and 2 more · Garden flower
Hybrid tea rose
The classic long-stemmed garden and cut rose with high-centred blooms
🇫🇷 France · Garden flower
Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim
The national orchid of Singapore, known for year-round blooming
🇸🇬 Singapore · Garden flower
Golden wattleAcacia pycnantha
Australia's national flower, with fluffy golden blooms and sickle-shaped phyllodes
🇦🇺 Australia and 7 more · Flowering tree
Red spider lilyLycoris radiata
A bright-red autumn-blooming lily with spidery stamens
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Bulb flower
Florist's daisyChrysanthemum × morifolium
The many-petalled autumn bloom of gardens and floral shows
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Garden flower
Madagascar periwinkleCatharanthus
A pink-flowered herb from Madagascar used in medicine and gardens
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 2 more · Herb or useful flower
Nematanthus
A trailing Brazilian plant with pouch-shaped flowers that resemble goldfish
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Garden flower
Freesia
A fragrant corm-grown flower with funnel-shaped blooms in many colours
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Bulb flower
Boat orchidCymbidium
A genus of long-lived orchids with boat-shaped lips, grown worldwide for their sprays of blooms
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Orchid
Silver cock's combCelosia argentea
A tropical annual with feathery, vivid flower spikes
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Garden flower
Blanket FlowerGaillardia aristata
A drought-tolerant wildflower with yellow and maroon daisy-like blooms
🇺🇸 United States and 6 more · Wildflower
Madonna lilyLilium candidum
A pure white, fragrant lily with deep religious symbolism
🇫🇷 France and 4 more · Bulb flower
Weeping bottlebrushMelaleuca viminalis
A red-flowered Australian tree with weeping branches and bottlebrush blooms
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Flowering tree
PaperwhiteNarcissus tazetta
A tall, white-and-yellow narcissus grown for scent and indoor blooms
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Bulb flower
ChampakMagnolia champaca
A tall tree with fragrant yellow to orange flowers, prized in South and Southeast Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 7 more · Flowering tree
PansyViola × wittrockiana
A large-flowered garden hybrid with a face-like blotch in many colours
Viola × wittrockiana · Garden flower
Sulphur cosmosCosmos sulphureus
A tall annual with yellow, orange, or red daisy-like blooms
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Concrete (perfumery): Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blanket Flower: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Weeping bottlebrush: Geoff Fox, CC BY 3.0, source
- Paperwhite: Zachi Evenor, CC BY 2.0, source
- Champak: Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.), Public domain, source
- Pansy: Photo by and (c)2008 Derek Ramsey ( Ram-Man ), GFDL 1.2, source
- Sulphur cosmos: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Stephanotis: Lenore Edman, CC BY 2.0, source
- Gypsophila: John Alan Elson, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Red pincushion-protea: Cs california, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Easter lily: UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chinese peony: Ulf Eliasson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cabbage rose: Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- French rose: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Didier's tulip: Dina L, CC0, source
- Common jasmine: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Gladiolus alatus: Abu Shawka, CC0, source
- Arctotis: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Banksia: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Featherflower: Cygnis insignis, Public domain, source
- Ivy-leaved geranium: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet mock orange: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Bielefeld assumed (based o, Public domain, source
- Neoregelia: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Globe amaranth: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garden cosmos: George Chernilevsky, CC BY 4.0, source
- Tuberose: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Big Bend bluebonnet: Adbar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mexican bush sage: Netherzone, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garden dahlia: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Purple coneflower: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common pagoda: Dwergenpaartje, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lisianthus: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Gerbera: Novita Saulina Sitohang, CC BY 4.0, source
- Hooker's banksia: Gnangarra, CC BY 2.5 au, source
- Garden rose: Laitche, Public domain, source
- Persian buttercup: SuperJew, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hybrid tea rose: A. Barra, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim: Calvin Teo ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Golden wattle: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Red spider lily: Jim Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Florist's daisy: 池田正樹 ( talk )masaki ikeda, Public domain, source
- Madagascar periwinkle: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source
- Nematanthus: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Freesia: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Boat orchid: Rohit Naniwadekar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Silver cock's comb: Quadell ( talk ) ( Uploads ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Madonna lily: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source