4-syllable Flowers that contain O

List of 4-syllable Flowers that contain O

1

Anemone

Anemone coronaria

A diverse genus of spring and autumn perennials whose silken-petaled flowers from the windflower to the Japanese anemone bridge multiple garden seasons.

2

Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea glabra

A vigorous thorny South American climber whose papery, vividly coloured bracts cover walls and pergolas in every warm city of the world.

3

Coneflower

Echinacea purpurea

A robust North American prairie perennial with raised central cones and drooping petals, popularised globally as both a garden plant and an immune-system herbal remedy.

4

Forget-Me-Not

Myosotis sylvatica

A small clear-blue wildflower of streamsides and woodland margins whose name and tiny yellow eye have made it the universal emblem of remembrance.

5

Forsythia

Forsythia × intermedia

A vigorous deciduous shrub whose bare branches erupt into bright yellow bell-shaped flowers in early spring, signalling the start of the gardening year.

6

Gladiolus

Gladiolus grandiflorus

A tall corm-grown summer flower with sword-shaped leaves and a one-sided spike of trumpet flowers in nearly every saturated colour.

7

Honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum

A twining hedgerow climber whose tubular cream-and-yellow flowers release the iconic perfume of warm summer evenings in temperate gardens.

8

Magnolia

Magnolia × soulangeana

An ancient genus of flowering trees whose huge waxy goblet flowers predate bees and were pollinated by the earliest beetles a hundred million years ago.

9

Morning Glory

Ipomoea purpurea

A fast-growing tropical climber whose sky-blue trumpet flowers open at dawn and close by noon, twining through any support in their reach.

10

Oxeye Daisy

Leucanthemum vulgare

The tall white-and-yellow meadow daisy of European grasslands, a classic ingredient of wildflower seed mixes and the lookalike of garden Shasta daisies.

11

Passion Flower

Passiflora caerulea

A spectacular tropical climber whose elaborate ten-part flower was read by Spanish missionaries as a botanical sermon on the crucifixion.

12

Rhododendron

Rhododendron ponticum

A vast genus of acid-loving evergreen shrubs and trees, dominating Himalayan slopes and providing the showiest spring blooms of British woodland gardens.