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Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
A late-season daisy of meadows and gardens whose violet starbursts feed migrating butterflies long after most flowers have faded.
Looking for 2-syllable flowers? Here are 23 flowers that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Syllables are counted across the whole name (multi-word names sum). "Apple" is 2 syllables; "Macaroni and Cheese" is 6.
List of 2-syllable Flowers
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Bluebell
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
A nodding spring bulb that carpets ancient British woodlands in waves of violet-blue, an icon of intact deciduous forest.
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Cosmos
Cosmos bipinnatus
A graceful Mexican annual with airy ferny foliage and single saucer-shaped flowers that bloom non-stop on tall, slender stems.
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Cowslip
Primula veris
A nodding yellow spring wildflower of European meadows, prized for its honey-apricot scent and once gathered for cowslip wine.
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Crocus
Crocus vernus
A tiny goblet-shaped corm that pushes through frost in late winter and, in one species, supplies the world's most expensive spice.
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Daisy
Bellis perennis
A small white-and-yellow lawn perennial whose simple flower is the popular archetype for what a flower looks like.
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Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
A tall biennial spike of speckled tubular flowers that lines hedgerows and gives medicine its most important heart drug, digitalis.
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Heather
Calluna vulgaris
A wiry low evergreen of the moor that paints northern uplands purple in late summer and feeds an entire ecosystem of bees, grouse, and sheep.
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Iris
Iris germanica
A worldwide genus of rhizomatous and bulbous perennials whose elegant three-part flowers gave their name to a goddess and a heraldic emblem of France.
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Jasmine
Jasminum officinale
A genus of intensely fragrant climbing and shrubby plants whose small white flowers perfume warm-climate gardens and underpin classic perfumery.
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Lilac
Syringa vulgaris
A deciduous shrub of the Balkans whose pyramidal trusses of small fragrant purple flowers define the scent of late spring in temperate gardens.
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Lotus
Nelumbo nucifera
An ancient aquatic flower of Asia whose pristine pink blooms rise on long stems above muddy ponds and have anchored religious symbolism for millennia.
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Lupin
Lupinus polyphyllus
A spire of pea-shaped flowers in vivid bands of colour, born from a tough nitrogen-fixing perennial that thrives on poor soils.
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Orchid
Orchidaceae
The largest family of flowering plants on Earth, comprising over twenty-five thousand species whose intricate co-evolved blooms occupy nearly every habitat.
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Pansy
Viola × wittrockiana
A short-lived hybrid garden flower whose expressive "face" of five overlapping petals has made it the cool-season bedding plant of the modern world.
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Poppy
Papaver rhoeas
A crinkled silken-petaled annual of disturbed soils, whose blood-red bloom became Europe's central memorial flower after the First World War.
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Primrose
Primula vulgaris
One of the first flowers of European spring, a pale yellow rosette that brightens woodland edges and shady banks from March onwards.
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Snowdrop
Galanthus nivalis
A small, nodding white bulb that flowers through frozen ground in late winter, the earliest sign of returning spring in much of Europe.
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Sweet Pea
Lathyrus odoratus
A graceful annual climber whose ruffled, intensely fragrant flowers in pastel colours are the classic English cottage-garden cut flower.
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Tea Rose
Rosa odorata
An elegant repeat-flowering Chinese rose whose introduction to Europe revolutionised garden roses and produced the modern hybrid teas.
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Tulip
Tulipa gesneriana
A spring-flowering bulb of the central Asian steppes whose introduction to seventeenth-century Holland triggered the first speculative bubble in modern finance.
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Wild Rose
Rosa canina
A simple five-petaled hedgerow rose of the Northern Hemisphere, parent to many garden hybrids and producer of vitamin-rich autumn hips.
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Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
A tough, ferny-leaved Eurasian perennial whose flat-topped corymbs of small white flowers hold soldiers' wounds and pollinator gardens together.
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