Flower |
Meaning |
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 |
AGERATUM |
? |
AGRIMONY |
Gratitude |
ALLSPICE |
Compassion |
ALMOND (common) |
Indiscretion; perfidy |
ALOE |
grief; misplaced devotion; religious superstition |
ALSTROEMERIA |
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; expectations |
ANGELICA |
Inspiration; magic |
APOCYNUM |
Falsehood; figment; I doubt you |
APPLE-BLOSSOM |
Preference |
ARBOR-VITAE (American) |
immortality |
ARBOR-VITAE |
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) |
Elegance; love; 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 |
Innocence |
BACHELOR'S BUTTON |
Celibacy; hope in love |
BALM |
Social intercourse; sympathy |
BALSAM |
Impatience |
BARBERRY |
Sharpness of temper |
BASIL |
Hatred |
BAY-LEAF |
I change but in death |
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) |
Perfection; loveliness; unpretending excellence; innate warmth;
alas my poor heart |
CAMELLIA (White) |
Perfected loveliness; without blemish |
CAMOMILE |
Energy in adversity |
CANDYTUFT |
Indifference |
CANTERBURY BELLS |
Gratitude; acknowledgement; obligation |
CARDAMINE |
Paternal error |
CARDINAL-FLOWER |
Distinction |
CARNATION (white) |
Disdain |
CARNATION |
Woman's love |
CARNATION PINK |
Woman's love |
CATALPA |
Beware of the coquette |
CATCHFLY |
Pretended love, snare, unchanging friendship |
CATTLEYA |
Matronly grace; mature charms |
CEDAR |
I live but for thee; think of me |
CELANDINE |
Joys to come |
CENTAURY |
Delicacy |
CEREUS(night-blooming) |
Transient beauty |
CHERRY-BLOSSOM |
Spiritual beauty |
CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM |
Do me justice |
CHICKWEED |
Give an account of yourself; rendezvous |
CHICORY |
Frugality |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) |
Loveliness and cheerfulness |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) |
I love |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (white) |
Truth |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (yellow) |
Dejection, slighted love |
CINERARIA |
Always delighted |
CINQUEFOIL |
Maternal affection |
CISTUS |
Popular favour |
CITRON |
natured beauty |
CLEMATIS (evergreen) |
Poverty |
CLEMATIS |
Mental Beauty |
CLIANTHUS -Self-seeking, worldliness |
CLOTBUR |
Rudeness |
CLOVER (four-leafed) |
Be mine |
CLOVER (red) |
Industry, not only gay, but good |
CLOVER (white) |
Think of me |
CLOVES |
Dignity |
COBAEA |
Gossip |
COLTSFOOT |
Justice shall be done |
COLUMBINE |
Folly |
CONVOLVULUS (great) |
Despondency; extinguished hopes |
CONVOLVULUS (pink) |
Worth sustained by affection |
CONVOLVULUS |
Uncertainty |
CORCHORUS |
Return quickly |
COREOPSIS |
Always cheerful |
CORIANDER |
Hidden worth |
CORN-BLOSSOM |
Riches |
CORN-COCKLE |
Peerless and proud |
CORNEL |
Success crowned you |
CORNFLOWER |
Delicacy; refinement |
COWSLIP |
Comeliness; winning grace; you are my divinity |
COXCOMB |
Foppery |
CRABAPPLE-BLOSSOM |
Irritability |
CRANBERRY |
Cure for heartache |
CREEPING CEREUS |
Modest genius |
CRESS |
Power; stability |
CROCUS |
Abuse not; gladness; mirth |
CROWFOOT |
Ingratitude |
CROWN IMPERIAL |
Arrogance; majesty; pride of birth |
CUCKOO FLOWER |
Ardor |
CUDWEED |
Unceasing remembrance |
CURRANT |
Your frown will destroy me |
CUSCUTA |
Meanness |
CYCLAMEN |
Diffidence |
CYPRESS |
Despair, mourning |
DAFFODIL |
Deceitful; hope; unrequited love; regard |
DAHLIA |
Elegance and dignity; forever thine |
DAISY (coloured) |
Beauty |
DAISY (Michaelmas) |
Farewell |
DAISY (white wild) |
I will think of it |
DAISY |
Innocence; romance |
DANDELION |
Coquetry; love's oracle |
DAPHNE |
Fame; glory |
DARNEL |
Vice |
DEW-PLANT |
Serenade |
DILL |
Lust |
DIOSMA |
Your simple elegance charms me |
DITTANY OF CRETE (white) |
Passion |
DOCK |
Patience |
DODDER OF THYME |
Baseness |
DOGBANE |
Falsehood |
DOGROSE |
Pleasure |
DOGWOOD |
Forgetfulness; love undiminished by |
EGLANTINE |
Genius; I wound to heal; poetry; talent |
ELDER |
Compassion; zealousness |
ENDIVE |
Frugality |
ESCHSCHOLTZIA |
Do not refuse me |
EUPATORIUM |
Delay |
EYEBRIGHT |
Cheer up |
FENNEL |
Strength; worthy of praise |
FERN |
Fascination; magic; sincerity |
FIG |
Argument, I keep my secret |
FILBERT |
Reconciliation |
FIR |
Time |
FLAX |
Domestic industry; fate; I feel your kindness |
FLEUR-DE-LIS |
Message |
FLOWER-OF-AN-HOUR |
Delicate beauty |
FLOWERING ALMOND |
Hope |
FORGET-ME-NOT |
Constancy; true love |
FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER |
Be mine |
FOUR-O'CLOCK |
Timidity |
FOXGLOVE |
Insincerity; stateliness; youth |
FOXTAIL GRASS |
Sporting |
FREESIA |
Innocence |
FUCHSIA |
Confiding love |
FUMITORY |
Spleen |
FURZE |
Anger; love for all occasions |
GARDEN DAISY |
Share your sentiments |
GARDENIA |
Refinement; purity; secret love |
GENTIAN (closed) |
Sweet be thy dreams |
GENTIAN (fringed) |
I look to heaven |
GERANIUM (dark) |
Melancholy |
GERANIUM (fish) |
Disappointed expectation |
GERANIUM (horseshoe) |
Stupidity |
GERANIUM (Ivy) |
Favour |
GERANIUM (lemon) |
Unexpected meeting |
GERANIUM (nutmeg) |
Expected meeting |
GERANIUM (oak) |
True friendship |
GERANIUM (pencilled) |
Ingenuity; |
GERANIUM (rose) |
Preference |
GERANIUM (scarlet) |
Comforting; consolation |
GERANIUM (silver leafed) |
Recall |
GERANIUM (wild) |
Steadfast piety |
GERANIUM |
Gentility; peaceful mind |
GILLYFLOWER |
Bonds of affection; lasting beauty; she is fair |
GLADIOLA |
Generosity |
GLADIOLUS |
Ready-armed |
GOLDENROD |
Encouragement; precaution |
GOOSEBERRY |
Anticipation |
GRANDIFLORA |
High-souled |
GRAPE (wild) |
Charity; mirth |
GRASS |
Submission |
HANDFLOWER |
Warning |
HAREBELL |
Grief; submission |
HARLEQUIN |
Laugh at trouble |
HAWKWEED |
Quick-sighted |
HAWTHORN |
Hope |
HAZEL |
Reconciliation; heart is agitated |
HEARTSEASE |
Modesty; pleasant thoughts; think of me |
HEATH |
Solitude |
HEATHER |
Admiration |
HELENIUM; |
Tears |
HELIOTROPE |
Devotion, eagerness; intoxicated with joy |
HELLEBORE |
Calumny; scandal |
HEMLOCK |
You will cause my death |
HEMP |
Fate |
HIBISCUS |
Delicate beauty |
HOLLY |
Am I forgotten?; domestic happiness; foresight |
HOLLYHOCK |
Ambition, fruitfulness |
HONEY-FLOWER |
Love sweet and secret |
HONEYSUCKLE (coral) |
Fidelity; generous and devoted love; sweetness of
disposition |
HONEYSUCKLE (wild) |
Inconstancy |
HONEYSUCKLE |
Bonds of love |
HOP |
Injustice; |
HORNBEAM |
Ornament |
HORSE-CHESTNUT |
Luxury |
HOUSELEEK |
Domestic industry; vivacity |
HOUSTONIA |
Contentment |
HYACINTH (purple) |
Jealousy, sorrow |
HYACINTH (white) |
Modest loveliness |
HYACINTH |
Constancy; playful joy |
HYDRANGEA |
Boaster; heartlessness |
HYSSOP |
Cleanliness |
ICE-PLANT |
Old Beau; rejected; your looks freeze me |
IRIS (German) |
Aflame; I burn adversity |
IRIS |
Message, my compliments; eloquence; faith and wisdom; promist in
love |
IVY |
Fidelity; friendship; marriage; wedded love |
JACOB'S-LADDER |
come down |
JASMINE (cape) |
I am too happy |
JASMINE (Carolina) |
Separation |
JASMINE (Indian) |
Attraction; I attach myself to you |
JASMINE (Spanish) |
Sensuality |
JASMINE (white) |
Amiability |
JASMINE (yellow) |
Grace and elegance |
JASMINE |
I am too happy |
JONQUIL |
Can you return my love?; I desire a return of your
affection |
JUDAS-TREE |
Betrayal; unbelief |
KINGCUP |
Riches |
LABURNUM |
Forsaken, pensive beauty |
LADY'S SLIPPER |
Capricious beauty; win and wear me |
LADY'S SMOCK |
Ardor |
LADY'S THIMBLE |
Grief; submission |
LADY'S-TRESSES |
Bewitching grace |
LANTANA |
I am unyielding |
LAPAGERIA |
There is no unalloyed good |
LARCH |
Audacity; boldness. |
LARKSPUR (pink) |
Fickleness |
LARKSPUR (Purple) |
Haughtiness |
LAUREL (ground) |
Perseverance; token |
LAUREL (mountain) |
Ambition |
LAUREL |
Perfidy; treachery |
LAURESTINE |
I die if neglected |
LAVENDER |
Acknowledgment; distrust failure |
LEAVES (dead) |
Sadness |
LEMON |
Discretion |
LETTUCE |
Cold-hearted |
LICHEN |
Dejection; refusal; solitude |
LILAC (purple) |
Fastidiousness; first love |
LILAC (white) |
Youthful innocence |
LILY ( water) |
Purity of heart |
LILY (calla) |
Maiden modesty; beauty |
LILY (day) |
Coquetry |
LILY (frog) |
Disgust |
LILY (tiger) |
I dare you to love me |
LILY (white) |
Purity and sweetness |
LILY (yellow) |
Coquetry, falsehood, flirtation; gaiety |
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY |
Perfect purity; return of happiness |
LINDEN |
Conjugal love |
LIVE-OAK |
Liberty |
LIVERWORT |
Confidence |
LOBELIA |
Arrogance; malevolence |
LOCUST |
Affection beyond the grave; vicissitude |
LONDON-PRIDE |
Frivolity |
LOTUS |
Estranged love |
LOVE-IN-A-MIST |
Perplexity |
LOVE-LIES |
Bleeding; hopeless but not heartless |
LUCERNE |
Life |
LUPINE (rose) |
Fanciful |
LUPINE (white) |
Always happy |
LUPINE |
Voraciousness |
MADDER |
Backbiting; tranquillity |
MAGNOLIA (swamp) |
Perseverance |
MAGNOLIA |
Benevolence; high-souled; love of nature; magnificence |
MAIZE |
Riches |
MALLOW |
Mildness |
MANCHINEEL |
Falsehood |
MANDRAKE |
I wound to soothe |
MAPLE |
Reserve; retirement |
MARIGOLD |
Cruelty in love; inquietude; jealous lover |
MARJORAM |
Blushes |
MARSHMALLOW |
Beneficence in consent |
MARVEL-OF-PERU |
Timidity |
MEADOW-SAFFRON |
My best days are past |
MEADOWSWEET |
Uselessness |
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM |
Idleness |
MEZEREON |
Desire to please |
MIGNONETTE |
Your qualities surpass your charms |
MILFORD |
War |
MILK-VETCH |
Your presence softens my pain; comfort |
MIMOSA |
Exquisite, fastidious |
MINT |
Let us be friends again; virtue |
MISTLETOE |
I surmount difficulties; I want to be kissed; you are a parasite
|
MOCK-ORANGE |
Counterfeit |
MONARDA |
Your whims are unbearable |
MONK'S-HOOD |
Chivalry |
MONKSHEAD |
Danger is near |
MOONFLOWER |
I only dream of love |
MORNING-BRIDE |
I have lost all |
MORNING-GLORY |
Affection; departure |
MOSCHATEL |
Weakness |
MOSS |
Ennui |
MOSS ROSEBUD |
Confession of love |
MOTHERWORT |
Concealed love |
MOUNTAIN ASH |
Prudence |
MOURNING-BRIDE |
Unfortunate to attachments |
MUDWORT |
Happiness, peace |
MULBERRY (black) |
I shall not survive you; sadness |
MULBERRY (white) |
Wisdom |
MULLEIN |
Take courage |
MUSK-PLANT |
Be bolder |
MUSTARD |
I smart; I am hurt |
MYRTLE (wax) |
Discipline; instruction |
MYRTLE |
Love in absence; joy |
NANDINA |
My love will grow warmer |
NARCISSUS |
Egotism; you love yourself too well |
NASTURTIUM |
Patriotism |
NETTLE |
Slander; you are spiteful |
NIGHTSHADE |
Your thoughts are dark |
OAK |
Hospitality |
OAT |
I love your music |
OLEANDER |
Beware |
OLIVE |
Peace |
ORANGE-BLOSSOM |
Chastity; bridal festivities; happiness; fertility |
ORCHID |
You are a belle; you flatter me; love and beauty |
ORCHIS (bee) |
Error; industry |
ORCHIS (butterfly) |
Gaiety |
ORCHIS (fly) |
Error |
OXEYE |
Be patient |
PALM |
Victory |
PANSY |
Modesty; pleasant thoughts; think of me |
PARSLEY |
Useful knowledge; festivity gaiety |
PASQUEFLOWER |
You have no claims |
PASSION FLOWER |
Faith; holy love; religious fervour and superstition |
PEA (Everlasting) |
Appoint a meeting; lasting pleasure |
PEACH-BLOSSOM |
I am your captive |
PEAR-BLOSSOM |
Not altogether lovely; affections |
PENNYROYAL |
You had better go |
PEONY |
Anger; indignation; bashfulness |
PEPPER-FLOWER |
Satirical thoughts |
PERIWINKLE (blue) |
Early friendship |
PERIWINKLE (white) |
Harmony; pleasure of memory |
PERSICARIA |
Restoration |
PERSIMMON-BLOSSOM |
Bury me amid nature's beauties; I shall surprise you by and
by |
PETUNIA |
You soothe me |
PHEASANT'S-EYE |
I cannot forget you |
PHLOX (star-shaped) |
Affability; trying to please you; agreements |
PHLOX |
Unanimity |
PIMPERNEL |
Assignation; change |
PINE |
Pity |
PINK (double-red) |
Ardent love |
PINK (Indian) |
Always lovely |
PINK (mountain) |
Aspiration |
PINK (variegated) |
Refusal |
PINK (white) |
Fascination; talent |
PLUM (wild) |
Independence |
PLUM-BLOSSOM |
Keep your promises; fidelity |
PLUMBAGO |
Holy wishes |
POLYANTHUS |
Purse-proud |
POMEGRANATE BLOSSOM |
Mature elegance; perfection |
POPPY (red) |
Consolation |
POPPY (scarlet) |
Fantastic extravagance |
POPPY (variegated) |
Flirtation; dreaminess |
POPPY (white) |
Forgetfulness |
POTENTILLA |
I claim your esteem |
PRIDE OF CHINA |
Dissension |
PRIMROSE (evening) |
Inconstancy; early youth |
PRIMROSE (red) |
Neglected merit |
PRIMROSE |
Believe me; youth and sadness |
PRINCE'S FEATHER |
I blush for you |
PRIVET |
Prohibition |
PYXIE |
Life is sweet |
QUAKING-GRASS |
My |
QUAMOCLIT |
Busybody |
QUEEN-OF-THE-MEADOWS Uselessness |
QUINCE-BLOSSOM |
Temptation |
RAGGED-ROBIN |
Ardor |
RANUNCULUS |
I am dazzled by your charms; radiant; charming |
RASPBERRY-BLOSSOM |
Remorse |
RHODODENDRON |
Beware; I am dangerous |
ROCKET |
Rivalry |
ROSE (Austrian) |
You are all that is lovely |
ROSE (bridal) |
Happy love |
ROSE (Burgundy) |
Unconscious beauty |
ROSE (cabbage) |
Ambassador of love |
ROSE (Carolina) |
Love is dangerous |
ROSE (China) |
Beauty always new |
ROSE (Damask) |
Beauty ever new; young and brilliant |
ROSE (deep-red) |
Admiration; bashful; embarrassment |
ROSE (full-blown) |
Engagement |
ROSE (guelder) |
Age; winter |
ROSE (half-blown) |
Timid love |
ROSE (Jacqueminot) |
I am true |
ROSE (Japan) |
Beauty is your only attraction; illusion |
ROSE (marechal niel) |
Yours, heart and soul |
ROSE (montiflora) |
Grace |
ROSE (moss) |
Superior; confessions of love |
ROSE (musk) |
Capricious beauty |
ROSE (orange) |
passion |
ROSE (pink) |
Ours must be secret love; grace and sweetness |
ROSE (red) |
Unity, romantic love |
ROSE (rock) |
Popular favour |
ROSE (thornless) |
Ingratitude |
ROSE (white) |
I am worthy of your love; silence; innocent love; unity; purity;
humility |
ROSE (white, withered) |
I am in despair |
ROSE (wild) |
Charming simplicity |
ROSE (yellow) |
Jealousy; let us forget; love is waning; friendship; joy |
ROSE (York-and-Lancaster) |
Conflict |
ROSE |
Love |
ROSE-LEAF |
You may hope |
ROSEBUD (red) |
Inclined to love; pure and lovely |
ROSEBUD (white) |
Too young to love |
ROSEMARY |
Remember me |
RUDBECKIA |
Impartiality |
RUE |
Disdain; fertility |
SAFFRON |
Beware of excess pleasures; voluptuousness; you are perfectly
lovely |
SAGE |
Domestic virtues; great respect; wisdom |
SAINFOIN |
You confuse me |
SALVIA (blue) |
Wisdom |
SALVIA (red) |
Untiring energy |
SATINFLOWER |
Fascination |
SAXIFRAGE |
Affection |
SCABIOUS (sweet) |
Widowhood |
SCABIOUS |
Unfortunate love |
SEA-BINDWEED |
Uncertainty |
SENSITIVE-PLANT |
Fine sensibility |
SENVY |
I smart |
SHAMROCK |
Loyalty |
SHEPHERD'S PURSE |
I offer you my all |
SMILAX |
Constancy |
SNAPDRAGON |
No; presumption |
SNOWBALL |
Bound thoughts of heaven |
SNOWDROP |
Consolation; friendship in trouble |
SORREL (wild) |
Ill-timed wit |
SORREL (wood) |
Secret sweetness |
SOUTHERNWOOD |
Bantering; jest |
SPEEDWELL |
Womanly fidelity |
SPIDERFLOWER |
Not so bad as I seem |
SPIDERWORT |
Esteem but not love |
ST. JOHN'S-WORT |
Animosity |
STAR OF BETHLEHEM |
Atonement |
STARWORT |
Afterthought |
STEPHANOTIS |
Come to me; marital happiness |
STOCK |
Lasting beauty |
STONECROP |
Tranquillity |
STRAW |
Agreement |
SUMAC (dwarf) |
Adoration |
SUMAC |
I shall survive the change |
SUNFLOWER (large) |
You are splendid |
SWEET BASIL |
Good wishes |
SWEET SULTAN |
Felicity, happiness |
SWEET-WILLIAM |
Grant me one smile |
SWEETPEA |
Depart; departure; remember me |
SYRINGA |
You shall be happy yet |
TAMARISK |
Crime |
TANSY |
Resistance |
TEAZEL |
Misanthropy |
THISTLE (Scotch) |
Retaliation |
THISTLE |
Austerity; sternness |
THORN-APPLE |
Delusive beauty |
THRIFT |
Sympathy |
TRILLIUM |
Modest ambition |
TRUMPET-FLOWER |
Fame |
TUBEROSE |
Dangerous |
TULIP (red) |
Declaration of love |
TULIP (variegated) |
Enchantment; your eyes are beautiful |
TULIP (yellow) |
Hopeless love |
TULIP TREE BLOSSOM |
Rural happiness |
TURNIP BLOSSOM |
Charity |
TUSSILAGE |
You shall have justice |
VALERIAN |
An accommodating disposition |
VENUS'S FLY-TRAP |
Duplicity |
VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS |
Flattery |
VERBENA |
Pray for me; tender and quick emotion |
VERONICA |
Fidelity |
VERVAIN |
Enchantment; superstition |
VIOLET (blue) |
Faithfulness, love, loyalty |
VIOLET (white) |
Candour; modesty hope |
VIRGIN'S BOWER |
Filial love |
VIRGINIA CREEPER |
I cling to you |
WAKE-ROBIN |
Ardor-zeal |
WALLFLOWER |
Fidelity in misfortune or adversity |
WATER LILY |
Purity of the heart |
WAX-PLANT |
Susceptibility |
WHEAT |
Prosperity |
WISTARIA |
Cordial welcome |
WITCH-HAZEL |
Inspiration; Mysticism; a spell is upon me |
WOLFSBANE |
Misanthropy |
WOODBINE |
Fraternal love |
WORMWOOD |
Absence |
XANTHIUM |
Pertinacity; rudeness |
YARROW |
Cure for heartache |
ZEPHYRANTHES |
Expectation |
ZINNIA |
Thoughts of absent friends; friendship;
affections |