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Anthurium
Anthurium andraeanum
A glossy tropical aroid whose lacquered heart-shaped spathe and protruding spadix have made it a staple of modernist floral design.
Below are flowers that contain the letter U anywhere in the name. Each of the 16 flowers below opens to a full profile.
List of Flowers That Contain U
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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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Buttercup
Ranunculus acris
A shining yellow meadow perennial whose petals reflect ultraviolet light to attract pollinators and whose stems carry a mildly toxic sap.
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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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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.
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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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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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Hibiscus
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
A tropical shrub of huge five-petaled flowers, emblematic of Hawaii and Polynesia and source of a tart ruby-red infusion drunk worldwide.
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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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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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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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