flower gardening
floriculture | the cultivation of flowering plants |
| Venus's flower basket | a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework, found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia |
| artificial flower | a handmade imitation of a blossom |
florist
florist shop
flower store | a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold |
flower arrangement
floral arrangement | a decorative arrangement of flowers |
flowerbed
flower bed
bed of flowers | a bed in which flowers are growing |
| flower chain | flowers strung together in a chain |
| flower garden | a garden featuring flowering plants |
| flower power | a counterculture of young people in the US during the s and s |
flower people
hippies
hipsters | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the s, advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs, favored acid rock and progressive rock music |
Addis Ababa
New Flower
capital of Ethiopia | the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city, located in central Ethiopia |
| flower girl | a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession |
| flower girl | a woman who sells flowers in the street |
hippie
hippy
hipster
flower child | someone who rejects the established culture, advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle |
flower bloom
blossom | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts |
| flower | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms |
wildflower
wild flower | wild or uncultivated flowering plant |
| apetalous flower | flower having no petals |
| flower head | a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae |
ray flower
ray floret | small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower |
petal
flower petal | part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored |
buttercup
butterflower
butter-flower
crowfoot
goldcup
kingcup | any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus |
monkshood
helmetflower helmet flower Aconitum napellus | a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers, the dried leaves and roots yield aconite |
| leather flower Clematis versicolor | woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
leather flower vase-fine
vase vine
Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
fennel flower
Nigella hispanica | nigella of Spain and southern France |
black caraway
nutmeg flower
Roman coriander
Nigella sativa | herb of the Mediterranean region having pungent seeds used like those of caraway |
pasqueflower
pasque flower | any plant of the genus Pulsatilla, sometimes included in genus Anemone |
American pasqueflower
Eastern pasque flower
wild crocus
lion's beard
prairie anemone
blue tulip
American pulsatilla
Pulsatilla patens
Anemone ludoviciana | short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers, North America and Siberia |
globeflower
globe flower | any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers |
coralwood
coral-wood
red sandalwood Barbados pride
peacock flower fence
Adenanthera pavonina | East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental |
Nepal trumpet flower
Easter lily vine
Beaumontia grandiflora | evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers |
crape jasmine
crepe jasmine
crepe gardenia
pinwheel flower
East Indian rosebay
Adam's apple
Nero's crown
coffee rose
Tabernaemontana divaricate | tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas, northern India to Thailand |
anthurium
tailflower
tail-flower | any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers |
flamingo flower
flamingo plant
Anthurium andraeanum
Anthurium scherzerianum | commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix |
spathiphyllum
peace lily
spathe flower | any of various plants of the genus Spathiphyllum having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental |
ragged robin
cuckoo flower
Lychnis flosuculi
Lychins floscuculi | common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals |
love-lies-bleeding
velvet flower
tassel flower Amaranthus caudatus | young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables, seeds used as cereal |
scarlet musk flower
Nyctaginia capitata | viscid branched perennial of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having tuberous roots and deep red flowers |
paper flower
Bougainvillea glabra | Brazilian vine that tends to flower continuously |
| flame flower flame-flower flameflower Talinum aurantiacum | plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil, southwestern United States, Indians once cooked the fleshy roots |
narrow-leaved flame flower
Talinum augustissimum | similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers, southwestern United States |
spider flower
spider plant
Cleome hassleriana | native to South America but naturalized in warm parts of United States, grown for its long-lasting spider-shaped white to pink-purple flowers |
lady's smock
cuckooflower
cuckoo flower meadow cress
Cardamine pratensis | a bitter cress of Europe and America |
whitlow grass
shadflower
shad-flower
Draba verna | annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules |
Siberian wall flower
Erysimum allionii
Cheiranthus allionii | showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers, sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus |
western wall flower
Erysimum asperum
Cheiranthus asperus
Erysimum arkansanum | biennial or short-lived perennial prairie rocket having orange-yellow flowers, western North America to Minnesota and Kansas, sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus |
honesty
silver dollar
money plant
satin flower
satinpod
Lunaria annua | southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration |
bleeding heart
lyreflower
lyre-flower
Dicentra spectabilis | garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers |
compass plant
compass flower | any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass |