Flowers for national and state emblems
Flowers chosen to stand for a country, a state or a city.
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera
The pink aquatic flower sacred in Asia and grown for food, worship and beauty
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Water flower
ButtercupRanunculus
A widespread group of bright, often shiny-petalled wild and garden flowers
Ranunculus · Wildflower
WaterlilyNymphaea
Floating aquatic flowers found in ponds and lakes worldwide
🇪🇬 Egypt and 7 more · Water flower
Water-lily familyNymphaeaceae
Floating aquatic plants with showy flowers and round leaves
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 2 more · Wildflower
LotusNelumbo
Aquatic plants with large, round leaves and striking flowers called lotus
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Water flower
Prickly Water LilyEuryale ferox
A spiny water lily grown for its edible seeds in Asia
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Water flower
Japanese irisIris ensata
A tall, rhizomatous iris with bluish-purple flowers and yellow-marked falls
🇯🇵 Japan and 3 more · Garden flower
Japanese irisIris laevigata
A water-loving Japanese iris with violet-blue blooms and historic garden ties
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Water flower
Egyptian white water-lilyNymphaea lotus
A night-blooming white water-lily and the national flower of Egypt
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 more · Water flower
Blue water lilyNymphaea nouchali
A star-shaped aquatic bloom in white, blue and pink across South and Southeast Asia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 7 more · Water flower
Giant blue irisIris giganticaerulea
Tall blue-flowered iris native to the wetlands of the southern United States
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Yellow Water-lilyNuphar lutea
A floating yellow water-lily of lakes and ponds from Europe to western Asia
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Wildflower
Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis
A rare white water lily found only in Romania’s thermal springs
🇷🇴 Romania · Water flower
Amazon water-lilyVictoria amazonica
The enormous floating lily of the Amazon, with leaves up to 3 metres wide
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Water flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Egyptian white water-lily: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Giant blue iris: Steve Hurst @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database, Public domain, source
- Buttercup: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Waterlily: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Water-lily family: Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 2.5, source
- Lotus: Peripitus, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Yellow Water-lily: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 15:38, 1 October 2006 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sacred lotus: T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis: Lokal_Profil, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Amazon water-lily: Bilby, CC BY 3.0, source
- Prickly Water Lily: John Sims, Public domain, source
- Japanese iris: Laitche, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Japanese iris: Dennis L. Lindwall, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue water lily: Nguyễn Tấn Phát, CC BY-SA 3.0, source