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Herbs and useful flowers

Grown for scent, taste, dye or medicine as much as for looks.

ColourRed Pink Orange Yellow White Cream Blue Purple Green Maroon Many-coloured

In flowerSpring Summer Monsoon Autumn Winter

Flame lilyGloriosa superba A striking red and yellow climbing flower, national emblem of Zimbabwe and Tamil Nadu 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe and 9 more · Wildflower

African violetSaintpaulia A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa 🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower

BrahmakamalSaussurea obvallata A Himalayan alpine flower with papery bracts, sacred in Indian hill temples 🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Wildflower

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Flame lily: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0, source
African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Brahmakamal: Schwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

The weekly bunch

Every Monday: what is in bloom, the flower festivals of the week, seven flowers you may not know and one tradition explained.