Flowers that contain O

List of 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

Bird-of-Paradise

Strelitzia reginae

A southern African evergreen whose orange-and-blue crested flower famously resembles the head of a tropical bird in mid-flight.

3

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.

4

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.

5

Carnation

Dianthus caryophyllus

A clove-scented Mediterranean perennial whose ruffled, long-stemmed flowers have served as a buttonhole, a political badge, and one of the world's top three cut flowers.

6

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.

7

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.

8

Cosmos

Cosmos bipinnatus

A graceful Mexican annual with airy ferny foliage and single saucer-shaped flowers that bloom non-stop on tall, slender stems.

9

Cowslip

Primula veris

A nodding yellow spring wildflower of European meadows, prized for its honey-apricot scent and once gathered for cowslip wine.

10

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.

11

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.

12

Damask Rose

Rosa damascena

The ancient perfume rose of the Middle East, distilled into rose otto and rose water for over a thousand years and still the gold standard for fragrance.

13

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.

14

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.

15

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.

16

Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea

A tall biennial spike of speckled tubular flowers that lines hedgerows and gives medicine its most important heart drug, digitalis.

17

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.

18

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.

19

Honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum

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

20

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.

21

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.

22

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.

23

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.

24

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.

25

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.

26

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.

27

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.

28

Peony

Paeonia lactiflora

A long-lived perennial whose massive, fragrant late-spring flowers are the national flower of China and a fixture of cottage gardens.

29

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.

30

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.

31

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.

32

Rose

Rosa hybrida

The classic woody flowering shrub of gardens worldwide, celebrated for layered blooms in nearly every color and a perfume that has shaped trade, poetry, and perfumery.

33

Snapdragon

Antirrhinum majus

A short-lived Mediterranean perennial whose hinged tubular flowers snap open when squeezed, beloved of bumblebees strong enough to force entry.

34

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.

35

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.

36

Tea Rose

Rosa odorata

An elegant repeat-flowering Chinese rose whose introduction to Europe revolutionised garden roses and produced the modern hybrid teas.

37

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.

38

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.

39

Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

A tough, ferny-leaved Eurasian perennial whose flat-topped corymbs of small white flowers hold soldiers' wounds and pollinator gardens together.