4-syllable Flowers

List of 4-syllable Flowers

1

Amaryllis

Hippeastrum hybridum

A large South American bulb whose dramatic trumpet flowers on a leafless stem make it the standard winter houseplant of the Northern Hemisphere.

2

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.

3

Anthurium

Anthurium andraeanum

A glossy tropical aroid whose lacquered heart-shaped spathe and protruding spadix have made it a staple of modernist floral design.

4

Black-Eyed Susan

Rudbeckia hirta

A golden-rayed prairie daisy with a dark chocolate centre, a symbol of late North American summer and the state flower of Maryland.

5

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.

6

Calendula

Calendula officinalis

A hardy Mediterranean annual with edible bright orange petals long used as poor man's saffron and as a healing salve for the skin.

7

Camellia

Camellia japonica

A glossy-leaved evergreen shrub of East Asia whose formal winter blooms rival the rose and whose leaves, in one species, produce all the world's tea.

8

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum × morifolium

An East Asian autumn flower of immense cultural weight in China and Japan and one of the world's top three cut-flower crops.

9

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.

10

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.

11

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.

12

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.

13

Honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum

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

14

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.

15

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.

16

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.

17

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.

18

Plumeria

Plumeria rubra

A small tropical tree with sculpted five-petaled flowers and an intoxicating evening fragrance, the signature lei flower of Hawaii.

19

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.

20

Water Lily

Nymphaea alba

A floating-leaved pond perennial whose star-shaped blooms close at night and inspired one of the most famous painting series in Western art.

21

Wisteria

Wisteria sinensis

A vigorous East Asian climber whose drooping racemes of fragrant lilac or white pea-flowers turn pergolas and old walls into late-spring spectacle.