Herbs and useful flowers
Grown for scent, taste, dye or medicine as much as for looks.
Crocus
Small corm-grown flowers in white, yellow, orange or purple
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
HelleboreHelleborus
A group of perennial flowers that bloom in late winter and early spring
Helleborus · Garden flower
African violetSaintpaulia
A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Pineapple sageSalvia elegans
A Mexican shrub with pineapple-scented leaves and red tubular flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico · Wildflower
Winter aconiteEranthis hyemalis
A small yellow flower that blooms at the end of winter in European woodlands
🇫🇷 France and 1 more · Wildflower
LeekAllium ampeloprasum
A mild-flavoured onion relative and Welsh emblem with edible leaf sheaths
🇪🇬 Egypt and 7 more · Herb or useful flower
AmancaeIsmene amancaes
A yellow-flowered bulb plant from Peru’s coastal hills
🇵🇪 Peru · Bulb flower
Sturt's desert peaSwainsona formosa
Australia’s striking red desert wildflower with a black-centred bloom
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Hepatica
A woodland perennial with three-lobed leaves and early spring flowers
🇨🇳 China 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.
- Hellebore: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hepatica: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pineapple sage: Eric Hunt, CC BY 2.5, source
- Winter aconite: Afanasovich, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Leek: WikiLucas00, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Amancae: Ker Gawler, Public domain, source
- Sturt's desert pea: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 70-200mm f/2.8, GFDL 1.2, source