Flowers for national and state emblems
Flowers chosen to stand for a country, a state or a city.
CactusCactaceae
Succulent plants with spines, native to the Americas
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Pelargonium
A diverse group of flowering plants often grown as garden and house plants
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Spiral aloeAloe polyphylla
A rare mountain succulent with leaves arranged in a perfect spiral
🇱🇸 Lesotho and 1 more · Cactus or succulent
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
SaguaroCarnegiea gigantea
The towering cactus of the Sonoran Desert with white flowers and red fruit
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Desert roseAdenium obesum
A succulent shrub with bright pink to red flowers and a swollen base
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 7 more · Wildflower
Bayahibe roseLeuenbergeria quisqueyana
A leafy pink-flowered cactus from the dry forests of the Dominican Republic
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Wildflower
San Pedro CactusEchinopsis pachanoi
A tall, night-blooming cactus from the Andes with white, fragrant flowers
🇵🇪 Peru and 5 more · Wildflower
Kingcup cactusEchinocereus triglochidiatus
A mound-forming cactus with bright scarlet to orange-red flowers
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Mammillaria
A diverse group of small, rounded cacti with funnel-shaped flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 5 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pelargonium: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mammillaria: Stickpen, Public domain, source
- Cactus: G. Mütrel, Leipzig ; Berlin ; Wien : F.A. Brockhaus, Public domain, source
- Spiral aloe: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saguaro: Tyrv, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Desert rose: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bayahibe rose: Mario Guzmán, CC BY 4.0, source
- San Pedro Cactus: Betsy Lambert, CC BY 4.0, source
- Kingcup cactus: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source