Herbs and useful flowers
Grown for scent, taste, dye or medicine as much as for looks.
RosemarySalvia rosmarinus
A fragrant evergreen shrub with needle-like leaves and purple, blue, or white flowers
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 more · Flowering shrub
DandelionTaraxacum
A yellow-flowered perennial found in fields, lawns, and gardens worldwide
Taraxacum · Wildflower
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale
A familiar yellow wildflower with fluffy seed heads found across temperate regions
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
YarrowAchillea millefolium
A wild, fern-leaved plant with flat clusters of white or pink flowers and a spicy scent
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Wildflower
RapeseedBrassica napus
A yellow-flowered crop grown for its oil-rich seeds and protein meal
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Wild GarlicAllium ursinum
A wild woodland plant with star-shaped white flowers and edible leaves
🇮🇪 Ireland · Wildflower
Bay laurelLaurus nobilis
Evergreen tree with aromatic leaves used as bay leaf in cooking
🇬🇷 Greece and 9 more · Flowering tree
ColtsfootTussilago farfara
A yellow spring-flowering herb once used in traditional remedies
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Wildflower
Common sageSalvia officinalis
A Mediterranean herb with grey-green leaves and blue to purple flowers
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Herb or useful flower
Crocus
Small corm-grown flowers in white, yellow, orange or purple
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Primula
A large genus of spring-blooming wild and garden flowers from cool and mountain regions
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Wildflower
Wild PansyViola tricolor
A small wildflower with purple, yellow, and white blooms found across Eurasia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Wildflower
ColumbineAquilegia
A perennial wildflower with spurred, often blue or multicoloured blooms
Aquilegia · Wildflower
HelleboreHelleborus
A group of perennial flowers that bloom in late winter and early spring
Helleborus · Garden flower
Marsh-marigoldCaltha palustris
A bright yellow wildflower of marshes and wet woodlands in cool climates
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Meadow buttercupRanunculus acris
A tall yellow wildflower found in meadows and grasslands across Eurasia
Ranunculus acris · Wildflower
Spring starflowerIpheion uniflorum
A small blue spring bulb with star-shaped, honey-scented flowers
🇦🇷 Argentina and 5 more · Bulb flower
Peruvian lilyAlstroemeria pelegrina
A pink coastal lily from Chile, first of its genus to be described
🇨🇱 Chile and 2 more · Wildflower
Siberian columbineAquilegia sibirica
A hardy lilac-blue and white columbine from Siberia and Central Asia
🇲🇳 Mongolia and 3 more · Wildflower
Paeonia anomala
A wild peony with finely divided leaves and magenta-red flowers from northern Eurasia
🇷🇺 Russia and 4 more · Wildflower
Narrow-leaf pasque-flowerPulsatilla cernua
A bell-shaped wildflower with dark red-purple blooms and silky hairs
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Wildflower
Iris lactea白花马蔺
A hardy wild iris with pale blue to violet blooms from central Asia
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Wildflower
Lilium ledebouriiسوسن چلچراغ
A rare wild lily with white, green and purple flowers from Iran and Azerbaijan
🇮🇷 Iran and 1 more · Wildflower
ToadshadeTrillium sessile
A woodland wildflower with stalkless, reddish-purple blooms
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Sweet irisIris pallida
A Mediterranean iris grown for its scented roots and pale purple flowers
🇭🇷 Croatia and 4 more · Garden flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis
A pale pink wildflower of damp meadows and stream banks
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Wildflower
Yellow Himalayan fritillaryFritillaria cirrhosa
A rare Himalayan lily with bell-shaped, checkered flowers and prized medicinal bulbs
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Wildflower
Ragged-robinSilene flos-cuculi
A wild pink flower with deeply cut petals and a ragged look
Silene flos-cuculi · Wildflower
Bloody crane's-billGeranium sanguineum
A hardy crimson-flowered perennial of grasslands and gardens
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Wildflower
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
A pink-flowered wild geranium found in woods and gardens across the north
Geranium robertianum · Wildflower
Purple mountain saxifrageSaxifraga oppositifolia
A mat-forming purple flower of Arctic and high mountain regions
🇨🇦 Canada and 4 more · Wildflower
CatmintNepeta
A group of aromatic herbs with tubular flowers, famed for their effect on cats
Nepeta · Wildflower
Porcelain flowerHoya carnosa
A climbing houseplant with star-shaped, sweet-scented waxy flowers
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Garden flower
African violetSaintpaulia
A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Pacific trilliumTrillium ovatum
A three-petaled woodland wildflower of western North America
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Stemless four-nerve daisyTetraneuris acaulis
A bright yellow daisy of North American prairies and mountains, growing close to the ground
🇺🇸 United States and 2 more · Wildflower
Bergenia
A hardy perennial with large leaves and clusters of pink flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Common peonyPaeonia officinalis
A deep pink or red peony from the mountains of southern Europe
🇮🇹 Italy and 7 more · Wildflower
Sweet alyssumLobularia maritima
A low, honey-scented flower for gardens and coastal groundcover
🇨🇻 Cape Verde and 2 more · Wildflower
Poppy
Bright-petalled flowers grown for gardens, seeds, and remembrance
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
Greater Pasque FlowerPulsatilla grandis
A violet spring flower of open meadows and hillsides in central Europe
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Wildflower
Bleeding heartLamprocapnos spectabilis
A spring flower with pink and white heart-shaped blooms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Garden flower
Common snapdragonAntirrhinum majus
A tall garden flower with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇫🇷 France and 2 more · Garden flower
Pink evening primroseOenothera speciosa
A pink wildflower that opens at night and spreads across open ground
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Winter aconiteEranthis hyemalis
A small yellow flower that blooms at the end of winter in European woodlands
🇫🇷 France and 1 more · Wildflower
Virginia springbeautyClaytonia virginica
A small pink or white wildflower of eastern North American forests
Claytonia virginica · Wildflower
White trilliumTrillium grandiflorum
A woodland perennial with three-petalled white flowers in spring
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 more · Wildflower
Wood anemoneAnemonoides nemorosa
A spring wildflower of European woodlands with star-shaped white or pale blooms
🇹🇷 Turkey and 1 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bay laurel: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, source
- Primula: No machine-readable author provided. Pokrajac assumed (based on copyri, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common sage: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yarrow: Thayne Tuason, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hellebore: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Spring starflower: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Peruvian lily: Mar del Sur, CC BY 3.0, source
- Dandelion: Greg Hume, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Coltsfoot: Andreas Trepte, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Rosemary: Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, CC BY 2.0, source
- Wild Garlic: Agnes Monkelbaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common dandelion: Walther Otto Müller, Public domain, source
- Rapeseed: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wild Pansy: Kim Hansen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Columbine: Python (Peter Rühr), CC BY 3.0, source
- Marsh-marigold: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Meadow buttercup: Alinja, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Siberian columbine: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paeonia anomala: Eglekuc, CC BY 3.0, source
- Narrow-leaf pasque-flower: Qwert1234, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Iris lactea: peganum, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lilium ledebourii: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Toadshade: Kaldari, Public domain, source
- Sweet iris: Pamwik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cuckoo flower: Ermell, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Yellow Himalayan fritillary: Popolon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ragged-robin: Peter O'Connor aka anemoneprojectors, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bloody crane's-bill: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Herb-Robert: Original uploader was Sannse at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Purple mountain saxifrage: Roger Culos, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Catmint: Jon Sullivan, Public domain, source
- Porcelain flower: Yvan leduc, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pacific trillium: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stemless four-nerve daisy: No machine-readable author provided. Curtis Clark assumed (based on co, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Bergenia: Christian Hummert ( Ixitixel ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common peony: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet alyssum: Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Poppy: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
- Greater Pasque Flower: Eleassar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bleeding heart: Roozitaa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common snapdragon: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Pink evening primrose: ZooFari, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Winter aconite: Afanasovich, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Virginia springbeauty: Kaldari, Public domain, source
- White trillium: Paul Johnston, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wood anemone: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, source