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Meaning of Flowers


Photo by Tori Rogers, Meaning of Flowers


ABUTILON Meditation


ACACIA (Rose or white) Elegance, friendship 


ACACIA (yellow) Secret love


ACANTHUS Artifice, fine arts


ACHILLEA  War


ACONITE Lustre, misanthropy


ADDER’S-TONGUE Jealousy


ADONIS Sad  memories


AGRIMONY Gratitude


ALLSPICE Compassion


ALMOND (common)  Indiscretion, perfidy


ALOE grief, misplaced devotion, religious superstition 


ALSTOREMERIA Devotion


ALTHEA Consumed by love


ALYSSYM (sweet)  Excellence beyond beauty, exemplary modesty


AMARANTH (coxcomb) Affectation,  pretension


AMARANTH (globe) Constant, unchangeable


AMARANTH Foppery,  immortality, pretension


AMARYLLIS Beautiful, timid, proud


AMBROSIA Love  returned


ANEMONE Fading hope


ANGELICA Inspiration, magic


APOCYNUM  Falsehood, figment, I doubt you


APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference


ARBORVITAE  (American) immortality


ARBORVITAE I never change, live for me


ARBUTUS  You only do I love


ASCLEPIAS Sorrowful remembrance


ASH Prudence, with me  you are safe


ASMINE (night-blooming) Love’s vigil


ASPEN Excess of  sensibility, fear


ASPHODEL Memorial sorrow, my regrets follow you to the grave


ASTER (China) Afterthoughts, love of variety


AURICULA (scarlet)  Pride


AURICULA Painting, wealth is not always happiness


AZALEA  Moderation, temperance, your blush has won me


BABY’S BREATH= Everlasting  love, innocence


BACHELOR’S BUTTON Devotion, hope, love, celibacy, delicacy 


BALM Social intercourse, sympathy


BALSAM Impatience


BARBERRY  Sharpness of temper


BASIL Hatred


BAY-LEAF I change but in death 


BABY’S BREATH Pure of heart


BAYBERRY Discipline, instruction


BEGONIA  Deformity


BELLFLOWER Constancy, gratitude, I wish to speak to you 


BELLWORT Hopelessness


BETONY Surprise


BILBERRY Treachery 


BITTERSWEET Truth, platonic love


BLACKTHORN Difficulty


BLUEBELL  Constancy, sorrowful regret


BLUEBOTTLE Delicacy


BLUETS Contentment 


BORAGE Bluntness, talent


BRAMBLE Holiness, remorse


BROOM Humility,  neatness


BRYONY Prosperity


BURDOCK Importunity


BUTTERCUP Riches 


BUTTERFLY-WEED Let me go


CACTUS Grandeur, warmth


CALLA LILY  Magnificent beauty


CALYCANTHUS Benevolence


CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending  excellence, innate warmth, alas my poor heart


CAMELLIA (White) Perfected  loveliness, without blemish


CHAMOMILE Energy in adversity