Cut flowers
Grown for the vase, the bouquet and the flower market.
Common sunflowerHelianthus annuus
A tall annual plant grown for its large yellow flower heads and edible seeds
🇨🇦 Canada and 4 more · Wildflower
LilyLilium
Tall bulb flowers with large, colourful blooms in many gardens and cultures
Lilium · Wildflower
Helianthus
Tall North American plants with large, bright flower heads called sunflowers
🇺🇦 Ukraine and 1 more · Wildflower
Iris
A large group of perennial flowers with striking, six-lobed blooms
Iris · Wildflower
CornflowerCentaurea cyanus
A bright blue wildflower once common in European grain fields
🇩🇪 Germany and 7 more · Wildflower
Anemone
Perennial wildflowers with colorful, petal-like sepals known as windflowers
Anemone · Wildflower
PeonyPaeonia
Large spring flowers in pink, red, white, yellow and purple, grown in gardens worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Begonia
A vast group of colourful, shade-loving flowering plants from warm climates
Begonia · Wildflower
Delphinium
Tall garden flowers with spurred blooms in blue, purple, pink, and white
Delphinium · Wildflower
Petunia
A South American garden flower with trumpet-shaped blooms in many colours
Petunia · Garden flower
Protea neriifolia
A South African shrub with cone-shaped flower heads and hairy-tipped bracts
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
Swamp milkweedAsclepias incarnata
A wetland milkweed with pink to mauve flowers that attracts monarch butterflies
Asclepias incarnata · Wildflower
Scarlet jungleflameIxora coccinea
A dense evergreen shrub with year-round scarlet flower clusters
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Flowering shrub
Aztec marigoldTagetes erecta
The golden-yellow flower of Mexican altars and Day of the Dead offerings
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Wildflower
Bigleaf HydrangeaHydrangea macrophylla
A Japanese shrub with large pink or blue flower heads that change colour with soil
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Garden flower
Marguerite daisyArgyranthemum frutescens
A bushy daisy shrub from the Canary Islands with white, yellow or pink blooms
🇪🇸 Spain and 3 more · Flowering shrub
Arabian jasmineJasminum sambac
A small white jasmine with a strong, sweet scent, treasured in Asia for garlands and ceremonies
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Flamingo FlowerAnthurium andraeanum
A tropical plant with heart-shaped leaves and vivid red or pink spathes
🇨🇴 Colombia and 2 more · Garden flower
Bells of IrelandMoluccella laevis
Tall green spikes with bell-shaped calyces, grown for fresh and dried arrangements
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 more · Garden flower
Garden phloxPhlox paniculata
A tall, fragrant perennial with pink or purple flower clusters for summer gardens
🇺🇸 United States and 2 more · Garden flower
Stephanotis
A tropical climber with waxy, fragrant white flowers
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Cape primroseStreptocarpus
A houseplant with tubular blooms from African mountains and forests
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Doubtful knight's-spurConsolida ajacis
Tall garden annual with spikes of blue, pink or white flowers
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
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
Helenium
Tall daisy-like flowers in yellow and orange, once used to make sneeze-inducing snuff
Helenium · 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
Stargazer lilyLilium 'Stargazer'
A sky-facing, fragrant hybrid lily first bred in California in 1974
Lilium 'Stargazer' · 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
SnapdragonAntirrhinum
Garden flowers with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇩🇪 Germany and 4 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
Cape jasmineGardenia jasminoides
A glossy-leaved shrub with large, fragrant white flowers from East Asia
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
China asterCallistephus chinensis
A showy garden flower from China with many colorful cultivated forms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Garden flower
Protea magnifica
A mountain shrub from South Africa with large, showy flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Red pincushion-proteaLeucospermum cordifolium
A South African shrub with bright, pincushion-like 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.
- Begonia: Juni, CC BY 2.0, source
- Delphinium: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Helianthus: Արարատ Թրվանց, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common sunflower: Jon Sullivan, Public domain, source
- German iris: Za, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Protea neriifolia: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, source
- Swamp milkweed: The original uploader was Teune at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Scarlet jungleflame: UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cornflower: TeunSpaans, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lily: Denis Barthel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aztec marigold: HitroMilanese, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bigleaf Hydrangea: belvedere04, CC BY 4.0, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Peony: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY 2.5, source
- Petunia: Unknown author, GFDL 1.2, source
- Marguerite daisy: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Flamingo Flower: Hatem Moushir, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Garden phlox: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Stephanotis: Lenore Edman, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cape primrose: Nzfauna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Doubtful knight's-spur: Alberto Salguero, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cleome houtteana: Wiki Farazi, CC0, source
- Schizanthus: Penarc, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Helenium: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Stargazer lily: The original uploader was Skarg at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 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
- Snapdragon: Sabina Bajracharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Cape jasmine: Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- China aster: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Protea magnifica: Dinkum, CC0, source
- Red pincushion-protea: Cs california, CC BY-SA 3.0, source