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