Flower Language Database


    Meaning: secrecy

  • White or yellow acacia blossom - secret love
  • Coriander - hidden merit
  • Fern foliage - magic, enchantment, shelter
  • Fungus - resilience, loneliness, solitude, disgust
  • Gardenia - secret love
  • Queen Anne's lace - haven, sanctuary
  • White rose - silence, secrecy
  • Black rose - mystery
  • Heather - solitude

    Meaning: life

  • Bamboo - longevity
  • Maple foliage - longevity
  • Acanthus - immortality, rebirth
  • Alyssum - immortal love
  • Amaranth - immortal love, immortality
  • Cherry blossom - transience of life
  • Dahlia - elegance and dignity
  • Lotus - rebirth
  • Stinging nettle - life and death
  • Yellow orchid - new beginnings
  • Peach blossom - long life
  • Plum blossom - longevity
  • Plumeria - perfection, new beginnings
  • Queen of the night - enjoy small moments because they do not last
  • Yellow rose - undying love
  • Rosemary foliage - your presence revives me
  • White spider lily - new beginnings, health, rebirth
  • Stock - a happy life
  • Sunflower - longevity
  • Dogwood - durability

    Meaning: strength, hope

  • Bamboo - strength
  • Amaryllis - determination, hope, achievement, shyness
  • Borage - courage
  • Angel's trumpets - vivacity, vibrancy, health
  • Clove blossom - dignity
  • Crocus - hope
  • Dandelion - overcoming hardship
  • Edelweiss - high courage
  • Fennel - merit, strength
  • Fern foliage - courage
  • Gladiolus - strength of character, honor, conviction
  • Blue iris - hope, faith
  • Laurel - glory and honor
  • Scarlet lily - lofty aspiration
  • Nasturtium - patriotism, conquest
  • Sugarbush - courage, daring, resourcefulness, diversity
  • Snapdragon - graciousness, strength
  • Snowdrop - hope
  • Yellow spider lily - strength
  • Thistle - endurance
  • Thyme foliage - courage
  • Pink tulip - confidence
  • Yellow tulip - hope
  • Black tulip - power, strength
  • Gloxinia - a proud spirit

    Meaning: beauty

  • Bamboo - grace
  • Rose acacia blossom - elegance
  • Amaryllis - beauty
  • Aster - daintiness
  • Bird of paradise flower - magnificence
  • Calla lily - magnificence and beauty
  • White carnation - sweet and lovely
  • Cowslip - youthful beauty, winning grace
  • Red daisy - beauty unknown to possessor
  • Purple heather - solitary beauty, admiration
  • Hibiscus - rare and delicate beauty
  • White hyacinth - loveliness
  • Meadowsweet - beauty
  • Green orchid - charm, beauty, refinement
  • Blue orchid - rarity, uniqueness, beauty
  • Pink orchid - grace
  • White orchid - beauty, elegance
  • Plum blossom - beauty
  • Queen Anne's lace - delicate complexity
  • Pink spider lily - passion
  • Stock - lasting beauty
  • Black tulip - supreme elegance
  • Widow's tears - rare worth
  • French honeysuckle - rustic beauty
  • Pomegranate flower - mature elegance
  • Pink rosebud - grace, beauty
  • Burgundy rose - unconscious beauty
  • Austrian rose - thou art all that is lovely
  • China rose - beauty is always new
  • Damask rose - brilliant complexion, freshness
  • Musk rose - capricious beauty

    Meaning: general love

  • Maple foliage - love
  • Amaryllis - love
  • Ragweed - reciprocated love
  • American cowslip - you are my divinity
  • Apple blossom - preference
  • Arbutus - you are the only one I love
  • Aster - love
  • Milkvetch - your presence softens my pain
  • Bellflower - unwavering love
  • Red chrysanthemum - love
  • White chrysanthemum - truth, loyal love
  • Clovenlip toadflax - please notice my love for you
  • Coreopsis - love at first sight
  • Crocus - love
  • Daffodil - return my affection, unrequited love
  • Daisy - loyal love
  • Larkspur - ardent attachment
  • Forget-me-not - true love, faithful love
  • Gardenia - sweet love
  • Rose-scented gardenia - preference
  • Gorse - love in all seasons
  • Heliotrope - emblem of faithfully devoted love
  • Honeysuckle - devoted affection, bonds of love
  • Indian jasmine - unconditional and eternal love, attachment
  • Jonquil - return my affection
  • Bleeding heart - passionate love, unconditional love, compassion
  • Lavender - love
  • Purple lilac - first love
  • Pink lily - love, admiration
  • Mallow - consumed by love
  • Moonflower - dreaming of love
  • Morning glory - love in vain, affection
  • Baby blue eyes - you are my one and only
  • Green orchid - love
  • Peach blossom - charm
  • Primrose - eternal love
  • Rainflower - reciprocated love
  • Red rose - true love
  • Cabbage rose - ambassador of love
  • Blue or lavender thornless rose - love at first sight
  • Snowdrop - youthful love
  • Stock - bonds of affection
  • Red tulip - undying perfect love
  • Orange tulip - truest love
  • Ylang ylang - never-ending love
  • Red camellia - love
  • Yellow or white camellia - longing, waiting
  • Kamchatka fritillary - love
  • Mossy saxifrage - affection
  • Rose campion - only deserve my love

    Meaning: romantic love

  • Red carnation - deep romantic love
  • Red orchid - romance
  • Peach blossom - bridal hope

    Meaning: friendship, platonic love

  • Cedar foliage - everlasting friendship
  • Crocus - friendship in adversity
  • Oak-leaved geranium - true friendship
  • Ivy foliage - dependence, endurance, faithfulness, friendship
  • Yellow orchid - friendship
  • Pear blossom - lasting friendship
  • Yellow rose - friendship
  • Snowdrop - friendship in adversity
  • Yellow spider lily - everlasting friendship
  • Pink tulip - friendship

    Meaning: passion, sensual love

  • Azalea - passion
  • Jewelweed - ardent love
  • Red carnation - passion
  • Coriander - lust
  • Dill - passion
  • Yellow iris - passion
  • Orange lily - passion, desire
  • Lime blossom - fornication
  • Red orchid - desire, passion
  • Red poppy - pleasure
  • Light pink or coral rose - desire, passion
  • Pink spider lily - passion
  • Red tulip - passion
  • Cactus flower - sex
  • Spanish jasmine - sensuality
  • Dog rose - pleasure and pain

    Meaning: innocence, purity

  • Arum lily - faith, purity
  • Baby's breath - innocence, purity of heart
  • Cornflower - celibacy
  • Scotch broom - humility and neatness
  • Bulrush - docility
  • White carnation - innocence, pure love, faithfulness
  • Chestnut blossom - chastity
  • Daffodil - new beginnings
  • Easter daisy - innocence, faith, simplicity, purity
  • Freesia - innocence, thoughtfulness
  • White hydrangea - purity, grace
  • White iris - purity
  • White lilac - youthful innocence
  • White lily - purity
  • Lily of the valley - sweetness, humility, purity
  • Lotus - purity, chastity
  • Baby blue eyes - innocence
  • Pink orchid - gentleness, innocence
  • White orchid - purity, faith, humility, innocence
  • White rosebud - purity, humility
  • Sensitive plant - sensitivity, modesty
  • Snowdrop - purity, humility, innocence
  • Star of Bethlehem - purity
  • White violet - modesty, innocence, candor

    Meaning: prosperity

  • Maple foliage - abundance
  • Allium - good fortune, prosperity
  • Anthurium - hospitality, abundance
  • Cornflower - good luck, wealth
  • Basil foliage - success
  • Bells of Ireland - luck
  • Sloe foliage - fate, protection, hope against adversity, good fortune
  • Bumblebee orchid - industry
  • Red clover - industry
  • Gardenia - good luck
  • Hawthorn blossom - hope, fertility
  • Hollyhock - ambition
  • White hydrangea - abundance
  • Jasmine - monetary wealth
  • Oak foliage - strength, hospitality
  • Orange blossom - good fortune, good luck in marriage
  • Green and pink orchid - fertility
  • Peach blossom - generosity
  • Peony - prosperity, honor
  • Yellow poppy - wealth, success
  • Statice - success
  • Wheat - wealth and prosperity
  • Tiger lily - wealth
  • Polyanthus primrose - pride of riches

    Meaning: lies

  • Red heath - fickleness
  • Impatiens - impatience
  • Green willow - false love
  • Begonia - fanciful nature
  • Purple carnation - capriciousness, whimsical, changeable, unreliability
  • Crocus - impatience
  • Daffodil - uncertainty, deceitful hopes
  • Black dahlia - betrayal and dishonesty
  • Foxglove - insecurity
  • White hydrangea - boasting
  • Larkspur - levity, lightness, fickleness, haughtiness
  • Lavender - distrust
  • Nightshade - silence, falsehood
  • Snapdragon - deception, presumption
  • Thorn-apple - disguise, deceitful charms
  • Freesia - childishness, immaturity
  • Bugloss - falsehood
  • Dogbane - falsehood, figment, doubt
  • Mock orange - counterfeit

    Meaning: thanks

  • Agrimony - thankfulness, gratitude
  • Azalea - take care, gratitude
  • Bluebell - gratitude
  • Pink hydrangea - heartfelt gratitude
  • Mayflower - welcome
  • Dark pink rose - gratitude
  • Yellow spider lily - gratitude
  • Sweetpea - gratitude
  • Wisteria - welcoming

    Meaning: sorrow, remembrance

  • Aloe - grief
  • Anemone - forsaken, sickness, withered hope
  • Aspen foliage - fear, lamentation
  • Asphodel - death, the underworld, regret to the grave
  • Hollyhock - remember me, epiphany, remembrance, nostalgia
  • Balm - sympathy
  • Pink carnation - will never forget you
  • Cowslip - heartsickness and the death of young maidens
  • Cypress foliage - death, mourning, despair, sorrow
  • Forget-me-not - do not forget me, affectionate remembrance
  • Blue hyacinth - grief, sorrow, please forgive me
  • Blue hydrangea - frigidity, apology
  • Love lies bleeding - hopelessness
  • Marigold - pain and grief
  • Pansy - thoughtfulness, remembrance, you occupy my thoughts
  • Red poppy - consolation, death, blood, sacrifice, remembrance
  • Rainflower - I will never forget you
  • Dried white rose - sorrow
  • Black rose - despair, sorrow
  • Rosemary foliage - remembrance
  • Rue - regret, sorrow, repentance
  • Snowdrop - consolation
  • Red spider lily - abandonment, loss, separation, death
  • Statice - remembrance, sympathy
  • Sweetpea - tenderness, farewell
  • White tulip - remembrance
  • Wormwood foliage - absence, bitter sorrow
  • Zinnia - thinking of you; remembering absent friends, sentimentality
  • Tartarian aster - remembrance

    Meaning: promise

  • Almond blossom - promise
  • Aster - trust
  • Bluebell - loyalty, constancy
  • Camellia - constancy and steadfastness
  • Campanula - gratitude
  • China aster - fidelity
  • White clover - I promise
  • Blue daisy - long term loyalty and trust
  • Edelweiss - chivalrous devotion
  • Wild geranium - steadfast piety
  • Blue hyacinth - constancy
  • Lavender - devotion
  • Magnolia - perseverance
  • Oxeye daisy - patience
  • Plum blossom - keep your promises
  • Rainflower - I must atone for my sins
  • Speedwell - loyalty, protection
  • Star of Bethlehem - atonement, reconciliation
  • Sunflower - loyalty
  • Blue tulip - respect, trust
  • Blue violet - faithfulness
  • Wallflower - unchanging affection and fidelity in misfortune
  • White anemone - sincerity
  • Ragweed - piety
  • Morning glory - willful promises
  • Passionflower - belief, religious superstition, susceptibility

    Meaning: justice

  • Black eyed susan - justice
  • Chestnut blossom - do me justice
  • Coltsfoot - justice shall be done
  • Daffodil - chivalry, respect
  • Skeleton flower - I will show my true self to you, clarity, honesty
  • Forget-me-not - chivalry
  • Stinging nettle - protection

    Meaning: joy

  • Anthurium - happiness
  • Bird of paradise flower - joyfulness
  • Bouvardia - enthusiasm
  • Celandine - joys to come
  • Chamomile - energy in adversity
  • Coreopsis - always cheerful
  • Crocus - youthful joy
  • Daffodil - evanescent happiness
  • Orange daisy - joy, sunshine
  • Larkspur - levity, fun, joy
  • Eyebright - joy, mental clarity
  • Gardenia - joy
  • Goldenrod - encouragement
  • Red, pink hyacinth - playfulness
  • Lavender - happiness
  • Lily of the valley - returning happiness
  • Meadowsweet - happiness, peace
  • Mullein - good nature
  • Myrtle - joy, triumph
  • Baby blue eyes - happiness
  • Olive foliage - peace
  • Orange orchid - pride, enthusiasm, boldness
  • Yellow orchid - joy
  • Pink orchid - happiness, playfulness
  • White poppy - peace, joy
  • Light pink rosebud - youth, joy, energy
  • Yellow spider lily - happiness
  • Yellow tulip - cheerfulness, sunshine in your smile
  • Red poppy - fun loving

    Meaning: femininity

  • Azalea - womanhood
  • Pink carnation - a woman's love, a mother's love
  • Cherry blossom - feminine beauty
  • Cinquefoil - beloved daughter
  • Daisy - womanly truth
  • Pink spider lily - feminine love
  • Purple violet - love between women

    Meaning: masculinity

  • Green carnation - love between men
  • Peony - masculine bravery

    Meaning: negative

  • Basil foliage - hate
  • Begonia - beware
  • Bird's-foot trefoil - revenge
  • Angel's trumpets - danger
  • Buttercup - sarcasm, ingratitude
  • Yellow carnation - rejection, disdain, disappointment
  • Yellow chrysanthemum - slighted love
  • Columbine - the emblem of deceived lovers, ingratitude, faithlessness, folly
  • Cowslip - rejected love
  • Creeping willow - love forsaken
  • Scarlet gardenia - stupidity
  • Yellow hyacinth - jealousy
  • Laurestine - I die if neglected
  • Bleeding heart - rejected love
  • Orange lily - hatred
  • Lobelia- malevolence
  • Mulberry - I will not survive you
  • Mint - suspicion
  • Narcissus - unrequited love, selfishness
  • Stinging nettle - cruelty
  • Rhododendron - danger, beware
  • Black rose - danger, obsession, hatred
  • Yellow rose - apology, betrayal, heartbreak, infidelity, jealousy
  • Mourningbride - unfortunate attachment
  • Tansy - I declare war on you
  • Thistle - warning, surliness
  • Yellow tulip - desperate love
  • Wolfsbane - misanthropy
  • Carolina rose - love is dangerous
  • Christmas rose - please relieve my anxiety

    Meaning: kindness

  • Cherry blossom - gentleness, kindness
  • Elderflower - compassion
  • Phlox - harmony
  • Speedwell - kindness
  • Pink tulip - caring, good wishes
  • White tulip - forgiveness, sincerity
  • Valerian - an accommodating disposition
  • Azalea - patience, modesty
  • Daffodil - respect

    Meaning: mind, art, dreams

  • Acanthus - art
  • Mauve carnation - dreams of fantasy
  • Maple foliage - balance
  • Purple daisy - thoughtfulness
  • Silver-leaved geranium - recall
  • Pencilled-leaf geranium - ingenuity
  • Himalayan blue poppy - potential, possibilities
  • Purple hydrangea - desire to understand
  • Blue iris - wisdom, compliments
  • Lotus - eloquence
  • Oats - music
  • White egret orchid - my thoughts will follow you into your dreams
  • Green orchid - thoughtfulness
  • Pitch pine blossom - philosophy
  • Sage foliage - health, wisdom, respect
  • Sunflower - pure and lofty thoughts, adoration
  • Blue tulip - tranquility
  • Orange tulip - understanding, appreciation
  • Purple violet - daydreaming
  • Yarrow - healing, inspiration
  • White chrysanthemum - truth
  • Eglantine rose - poetry
  • Lupine - voracious imagination

    Meaning: royalty

  • Comet orchid - royalty
  • Kerria - royalty
  • Purple orchid - respect, royalty and admiration
  • Thistle - nobility
  • Purple tulip - nobility, royalty
  • Yellow chrysanthemum - imperiality

    Meaning: miscellany

  • Azalea - fragility
  • Boxwood - firmness and stoicism
  • Hyssop - cleanliness, sacrifice
  • Lemon blossom - discretion
  • Mignonette - worth, your qualities surpass your charms
  • Primrose - childhood
  • Spindle tree foliage - your image is engraved on my heart
  • Straw - unity
  • Sticky catchfly - invitation to dance
  • Sweetbrier rose - simplicity, a wound to heal
  • Thyme foliage - thriftiness
  • Tulip-tree - fame
  • Vervain - pray for me, protection against evil
  • Witch hazel - a magic spell
  • Allamanda - heavenly
  • Cardinal flower - distinction