Flowers that start with “Z” are few and far between, but one of them—the zinnia—is extremely common in gardens and floral arrangements. The list below includes other flowers that start with the letter “Z.”
Zenobia is a shrub with small, bell-shaped flowers.
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There are a few flowers that start with “Y,” including yarrow, yellow bells, yellow poppy, and yucca flower. The list below includes these and more.
Unlike other poppy varieties, yellow poppy only grows on seashores.
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Several flowers have Latin names (aka botanical names) that start with “X.” The flowers that start with “X” include Xerohyllum tenax (bear grass) and Xerochrysum (strawflower). A few (but not many) flowers include the letter “X,” such as phlox, foxglove, and flax.
Xyrus complanata is a yellow flower with three petals that’s native to the Philippines, New Guinea, and Australia.
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Flowers that start with “W” include wallflower, water lily, weigela, and wisteria. Other flowers that begin with “W” are listed below.
Most of Monet’s paintings of water lilies are in a museum in Paris.
The waratah flower is the state emblem of New South Wales in Australia.
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You’ll find a variety of the flowers that start with “V” in backyard gardens, including viola, veronica, vinca, and verbena. Other flowers that start with “V” are listed below.
Veronica plants are perennial, so they come back every year.
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There are only a few flowers that start with “U,” but they’re all unique. They include umbrella plant, urn orchid, and utricle bladderwort.
The utricle bladderwort is aquatic and carnivorous, so it grows in water and eats insects.
Ursinia is a daisy-like plant that grows in South Africa.
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Flowers that start with “T” include tulip, thistle, tansy, tiger lily, trillium, and tuberose. The lists below include a variety of common flower names and Latin flower names that start with the letter “T.”
I’ve always dreamed of visiting the tulip fields in the Netherlands.
Trilliums have three petals, which is why this flower name includes the prefix “tri-.”
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Flowers that start with “S” include salvia, sedum, Shasta daisy, sunflower, snapdragon, and spiderwort. There are over 30 flowers that start with “S,” ranging from the stargazer lilies that are common in floral arrangements to the Saguaro cactus blossoms that you’ll only see in US deserts in the spring.
Swamp milkweed is super helpful for monarch butterflies, but it takes up a lot of space.
When most people picture white and yellow daisies, they’re thinking of Shasta daisies.
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Flowers that start with “R” include rose, redbud, red hot poker, rhododendron, ranunculus, and Russian sage. The lists below include a variety of flowers that start with the letter “R.”
Rhododendrons are brightly-colored, funnel-shaped flowers that bloom in early spring.
The flowers of redbud trees are edible, and they taste like peas.
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There are several flowers that start with the letter “Q,” including Queen Anne’s lace, queen lime zinnia, and qantu, which is the national flower of Peru. Most of the flowers that start with “Q” include the word “queen.”
The wildflower Queen Anne’s lace is sometimes called “wild carrot” because of its taproot.
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