Flowers for national and state emblems
Flowers chosen to stand for a country, a state or a city.
Decoration
Bonsai盆栽
The Japanese art of shaping miniature trees in shallow pots
🇯🇵 Japan and 7 more · Art or design
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Ashtamangalaअष्टमङ्गल
A sacred set of eight auspicious symbols in Indian religions
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Art or design
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Paisleyبته
A curved teardrop motif from Iran and India, now used worldwide on textiles
🇮🇷 Iran and 8 more · Art or design
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Butaبوته
A curved floral motif found in Persian, Indian, and Central Asian art and textiles
🇮🇷 Iran and 5 more · Art or design
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Flower power
A 1960s protest style using flowers as symbols of peace and resistance
🇺🇸 United States · Custom
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Fleur-de-lis
A stylized lily used as a heraldic emblem
🇫🇷 France and 5 more · Custom
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Heraldic rose
A stylized five-petaled rose used as a symbol in coats of arms and badges
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 more · Art or design
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Hortus Eystettensis
A 1613 botanical book showing over 1,000 garden plants from a Bavarian palace
🇩🇪 Germany · Art or design
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Famille rose粉彩
Pink-enamel style of Chinese porcelain decoration
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Art or design
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Ikebana華道
The Japanese art of arranging flowers with form and meaning
🇯🇵 Japan · Arrangement
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Flora Danica
A botanical atlas that inspired a famous porcelain dinner set
🇳🇴 Norway and 3 more · Art or design
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Penjing盆景
The Chinese art of shaping miniature trees and landscapes in trays
🇨🇳 China · Art or design
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Hòn non bộ𡉕𡽫部
Vietnamese miniature landscapes of mountains and islands in trays or basins
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Arrangement
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Imperial crest of Japan菊紋
The 16-petal chrysanthemum emblem of the Japanese emperor and imperial family
🇯🇵 Japan · Art or design
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History of flower arrangement
How arranging flowers became an art across cultures and centuries
🇪🇬 Egypt and 3 more · Arrangement
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Rosette
A round, stylized flower motif used in art and decoration
🇪🇬 Egypt and 2 more · Art or design
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Japanese garden日本庭園
A traditional garden style shaped by nature, philosophy and seasonal change
🇯🇵 Japan · Garden style
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Kolamகோலம்
South Indian geometric floor art made with rice flour or powder at home entrances
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Carpet or floor pattern
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Kalashकलश
A metal pot with coconut and mango leaves used in Indian religious rituals
🇮🇳 India · Offering or rite
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language of flowers
A way of sending secret messages using flowers and their meanings
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Custom
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Palm branch
A symbol of victory, peace, and eternal life made from palm leaves
🇪🇬 Egypt and 7 more · Offering or rite
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Four Gentlemen四君子
The four symbolic plants of Chinese and East Asian art
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Art or design
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Three Friends of Winter歲寒三友
Pine, bamboo and plum shown together as a symbol of endurance in East Asian art
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Art or design
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Flowers of the Four Seasons四季名花
A classic set of four flowers symbolizing each season in Chinese art
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Art or design
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Morris & Co.
Handcrafted floral wallpapers, textiles, and stained glass from Victorian Britain
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 more · Art or design
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Topiary
The art of shaping living shrubs and trees into geometric or fanciful forms
🇮🇹 Italy and 6 more · Arrangement
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Acanthus ornamentἄκανθος
A leafy decorative motif from classical architecture
🇬🇷 Greece · Art or design
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Chinoiserie中国风
European decorative style inspired by imagined Chinese and East Asian art
🇫🇷 France and 4 more · Art or design
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SunflowersTournesols
A celebrated series of still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh
🇫🇷 France and 2 more · Art or design
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İznik potteryİznik çini
Ottoman ceramic style from Turkey, known for vivid tiles and vessels
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 more · Flower craft
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Mughal painting
A detailed miniature art style from Mughal India
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Art or design
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Chinese garden中国园林
A walled landscape of water, rocks, plants and pavilions shaped by Chinese aesthetics
🇨🇳 China · Garden style
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bonsai: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ashtamangala: Redtigerxyz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paisley: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Buta: Thomas Watier, Public domain, source
- Flower power: Mathias Degen, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Fleur-de-lis: Rosa-Maria Rinkl, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Heraldic rose: Gliwi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hortus Eystettensis: Wolfgang Kilian, Public domain, source
- Famille rose: Anonymous ( Qing dynasty ) Unknown author and Anonymous ( France ) Unk, CC0, source
- Ikebana: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Flora Danica: Edelseider, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Penjing: Peggy Greb, USDA, Public domain, source
- Hòn non bộ: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Imperial crest of Japan: Ogiyoshisan, Public domain, source
- History of flower arrangement: Otto Scholderer, Public domain, source
- Rosette: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Japanese garden: 663highland, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kolam: mckaysavage, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kalash: Redtigerxyz at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, source
- language of flowers: Alphonse Mucha, Public domain, source
- Palm branch: Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Four Gentlemen: Sun Long (孫隆) and Chen Lu (陳錄), Public domain, source
- Three Friends of Winter: Zhao Mengjian 趙孟堅 b. 1199 - d. circa 1264, Public domain, source
- Flowers of the Four Seasons: JGM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Morris & Co.: Anonymous for Morris & Co., Public domain, source
- Topiary: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Acanthus ornament: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chinoiserie: James Roberts (1800–1867), Public domain, source
- Sunflowers: Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, source
- İznik pottery: Turkey; Iznik, Public domain, source
- Mughal painting: Govardhan (attribution), Public domain, source
- Chinese garden: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 3.0, source