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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.
Below are flowers that contain the letter L anywhere in the name. Each of the 35 flowers below opens to a full profile.
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List of Flowers That Contain L
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Azalea
Rhododendron simsii
A spring-flowering subgroup of the rhododendron genus whose layered swarms of trumpet flowers blanket Japanese hillsides and southern American gardens.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
The state flower of California, a bright orange annual that carpets hillsides every spring with cup-shaped silken petals that close at night.
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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.
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Clematis
Clematis hybrida
A versatile climbing genus whose large starry flowers in every shade scramble through trellises, trees, and old garden walls.
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Climbing Hydrangea
Hydrangea petiolaris
A self-clinging deciduous climber from East Asia whose flat lacy white flower heads cover north-facing walls without need for support.
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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.
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Cornflower
Centaurea cyanus
A vivid azure-blue annual once so common in European wheat fields that its decline has become a symbol of vanishing arable wildlife.
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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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Daffodil
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
A cheerful trumpet-flowered bulb that opens the European spring, naturalising in woodland drifts and reappearing every year with almost no care.
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Dahlia
Dahlia pinnata
A frost-tender Mexican tuber that produces some of the largest, most architecturally varied flowers in the late summer garden.
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Dandelion
Taraxacum officinale
A ubiquitous yellow lawn perennial whose every part is edible and whose seed clocks are the universal childhood symbol of wishes carried on the wind.
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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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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.
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Heliconia
Heliconia rostrata
A clump-forming tropical perennial whose long pendant or upright bracts in lobster-claw shapes are the showpiece flowers of Central American rainforests.
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Honeysuckle
Lonicera periclymenum
A twining hedgerow climber whose tubular cream-and-yellow flowers release the iconic perfume of warm summer evenings in temperate gardens.
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Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
An aromatic Mediterranean shrub with silver-grey foliage and dense purple flower spikes prized for scent, oil, and pollinators.
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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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Lily-of-the-Valley
Convallaria majalis
A shade-loving woodland perennial whose tiny bell-shaped flowers carry one of the most coveted perfumes in nature.
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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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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.
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Marigold
Tagetes erecta
A vivid orange or yellow Mexican annual whose pungent foliage and abundant blooms make it a fixture of summer borders, vegetable companion plantings, and Hindu festivals.
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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.
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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.
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Plumeria
Plumeria rubra
A small tropical tree with sculpted five-petaled flowers and an intoxicating evening fragrance, the signature lei flower of Hawaii.
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Sunflower
Helianthus annuus
A towering North American annual whose enormous heliotropic flower heads track the morning sun and yield one of the world's most important oilseeds.
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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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Violet
Viola odorata
A small, low-growing woodland perennial whose intensely fragrant purple flowers gave their colour, their name, and their perfume to multiple languages.
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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.
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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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