The Language of Flowers
Steven Reiser, P.E.
Flowers and Their Meanings
ABUTILON - Meditation BILBERRY - Treachery
ACACIA (Rose or white) - Elegance; friendship; BITTERSWEET - Truth
platonic love BLACKTHORN - Difficulty
ACACIA (yellow) - Secret love BLUEBELL - Constancy;
sorrowful regret
ACANTHUS - Artifice; fine arts BLUEBOTTLE - Delicacy
ACHILLEA- War BLUETS - Contentment
ACONITE - Lustre; misanthropy BORAGE - Bluntness; talent
ADDER'S-TONGUE - Jealousy BRAMBLE - Holiness, remorse
ADONIS - Sad memories BROOM - Humility; neatness
AGERATUM BRYONY - Prosperity
AGRIMONY- Gratitude BURDOCK - Importunity
ALLSPICE - Compassion BUTTERCUP - Riches
ALMOND (common) - Indiscretion; perfidy BUTTERFLY-WEED - Let me go
ALOE - grief; misplaced devotion; religious CACTUS - Grandeur; warmth
superstition
ALTHEA - Consumed by love CALYCANTHUS - Benevolence
ALYSSYM (sweet) - Excellence beyond beauty, CAMELLIA (Red) -
Unpretending
exemplary modesty excellence, innate
warmth
CAMELLIA (White) -
Perfected
loveliness;
without blemish
AMARANTH - Foppery; immortality; pretension CAMOMILE - Energy in
adversity
AMARANTH (coxcomb) - Affectation; pretension CANDYTUFT- Indifference
AMARANTH (globe) - Constant, unchangeable CANTERBURY BELLS -
Gratitude;
acknowledgement;
obligation
AMARYLLIS - Beautiful; timid; proud CARDAMINE - Paternal error
AMBROSIA - Love returned CARDINAL-FLOWER -
Distinction
ANEMONE - Fading hope CARNATION - Woman~s love
ANGELICA - Inspiration; magic CARNATION PINK -
Woman's love
APPLE-BLOSSOM - Preference CARNATION (white) - Disdain
APOCYNUM - Falsehood; figment- I doubt you CATALPA - Beware of
the coquette
ARBOR-VITAE - I never change, live for me; CATCHFLY - Pretended
love, snare
unchanging friendship CATTLEYA - Matronly
grace; mature
charms
ARBOR-VITAE (American)-immortality CEDAR - I live but
for thee;
think of me
ARBUTUS - You only do I love CELANDINE - Joys to come
ASCLEPIAS - Sorrowful remembrance CENTAURY - Delicacy
ASH - Prudence; with me you are safe CEREUS
(night-blooming) - Transient
beauty
ASPEN - Excess of sensibility, fear CHERRY-BLOSSOM -
Spiritual beauty
ASPHODEL - Memorial sorrow; my regrets follow CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM - Do me
you to the grave justice
CHICKWEED - Give an
account of
yourself; rendezvous
ASTER (China) - Afterthoughts; love of variety CHICORY - Frugality
AURICULA - Painting; wealth is not always CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) -
happiness Loveliness and
cheerfulness
AURICULA (scarlet) - Pride CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) -
I love
AZALEA - Moderation; temperance; your blush has CHRYSANTHEMUM (white)
- Truth
won me
BACHELOR'S BUTTON - Celibacy; hope in love CHRYSANTHEMUM
(yellow) - Dejection,
slighted love
BALM - Social intercourse; sympathy CINERARIA - Always
delighted
BALSAM - Impatience CINQUEFOIL - Maternal
affection
BARBERRY - Sharpness of temper CISTUS - Popular favour
BASIL - Hatred CITRON - natured beauty
BAYBERRY - Discipline; instruction CLEMATIS - Mental Beauty
BAY-LEAF - I change but in death CLEMATIS (evergreen)
- Poverty
BEGONIA - Deformity CLIANTHUS
-Self-seeking, worldliness
BELLFLOWER - Constancy; gratitude; I wish to CLOTBUR - Rudeness
speak to you CLOVER (four-leafed)
- Be mine
BELLWORT - Hopelessness CLOVER (red) -
Industry, not only gay,
but good
BETONY - Surprise CLOVER (white) -
Think of me
CLOVES - Dignity GERANIUM (pencilled)
- Ingenuity;
COBAEA - Gossip GERANIUM (rose) -
Preference
COLTSFOOT - Justice shall be done GERANIUM (scarlet) -
Comforting;
consolation
CONVOLVULUS - Uncertainty GERANIUM (silver
leafed) - Recall
CONVOLVULUS (great) - Despondency; GERANIUM (wild) -
Steadfast piety
extinguished hopes
CONVOLVULUS (pink) - Worth sustained by GILLYFLOWER - Bonds
of affection;
affection lasting beauty;
she is fair
CORCHORUS - Return quickly GLADIOLUS - Ready-armed
COREOPSIS - Always cheerful GOLDENROD - Encouragement;
precaution
CORIANDER - Hidden worth GOOSEBERRY - Anticipation
CORN-BLOSSOM - Riches GRANDIFLORA- High-souled
CORN-COCKLE - Peerless and proud GRAPE (wild) -
Charity; mirth
CORNEL - Success crowned you GRASS - Submission
CORNFLOWER - Delicacy; refinement HANDFLOWER - Warning
COWSLIP - Comeliness; winning grace; you are my HAREBELL - Grief;
submission
divinity
COXCOMB - Foppery HARLEQUIN - Laugh at
trouble
CRABAPPLE-BLOSSOM - Irritability HAWKWEED - Quick-sighted
CRANBERRY - Cure for heartache HAWTHORN - Hope
CREEPING CEREUS - Modest genius HAZEL - Reconciliation
CRESS - Power; stability HEARTSEASE - Modesty;
pleasant
thoughts; think of me
CROCUS - Abuse not; gladness HEATH - Solitude
CROWFOOT - Ingratitude HELENIUM; - Tears
CROWN IMPERIAL - Arrogance; majesty; pride of HELIOTROPE -
Devotion, eagerness;
birth intoxicated with joy
CUCKOO FLOWER - Ardor HELLEBORE - Calumny-
scandal
CUDWEED - Unceasing remembrance HEMLOCK - You will
cause my death
CURRANT - Your frown will destroy me HEMP- Fate
CUSCUTA - Meanness HIBISCUS - Delicate
CYCLAMEN - Diffidence HOLLY - Am I
forgotten?; domestic
happiness; foresight
CYPRESS - Despair, mourning HOLLYHOCK - Ambition,
fruitfulness
DAFFODIL - Deceitful; hope; unrequited love HONEY-FLOWER - Love
sweet and secret
DAHLIA - Elegance and dignity; forever thine HONEYSUCKLE - Bonds of love
DAISY - Innocence HONEYSUCKLE (coral) -
Fidelity;
generous and
devoted love
DAISY (coloured) - Beauty HONEYSUCKLE (wild) -
Inconstancy
DAISY (Michaelmas) - Farewell HOP- Injustice;
DAISY (white wild) - I will think of it HORNBEAM - Ornament
DANDELION - Coquetry; love's oracle HORSE-CHESTNUT - Luxury
DAPHNE - Fame; glory HOUSELEEK - Domestic
industry; vivacity
DARNEL - Vice HOUSTONIA - Contentment
DEW-PLANT - Serenade HYACINTH - Constancy
DIOSMA - Your simple elegance charms me HYACINTH (purple) -
Jealousy, sorrow
DITTANY (white) OF CRETE - Passion HYACINTH (white) -
Modest loveliness
DOCK - Patience HYDRANGEA - Boaster;
heartlessness
DODDER OF THYME - Baseness HYSSOP - Cleanliness
DOGBANE - Falsehood ICE-PLANT - Old Beau;
rejected; your
looks freeze me
DOGROSE - Pleasure IRIS - Message, my
compliments
DOGWOOD - Forgetfulness; love undiminished by IRIS (German) -
Aflame; I burn
adversity
EGLANTINE - Genius; I wound to heal; poetry; IVY - Fidelity;
friendship; marriage;
talent wedded love
ELDER - Compassion; zealousness JACOB'S-LADDER - come down
ENDIVE - Frugality; JASMINE - I am too happy
ESCHSCHOLTZIA - Do not refuse me JASMINE (cape) - I am
too happy
EUPATORIUM - Delay JASMINE (Carolina) -
Separation
EYEBRIGHT - Cheer up JASMINE (Indian) -
Attraction; I attach
myself to you
FENNEL - Strength; worthy of praise JASMINE
(night-blooming) - Love's vigil
FERN - Fascination; magic; sincerity JASMINE (Spanish) -
Sensuality
FIG - Argument, I keep my secret JASMINE (white) -
Amiability
FILBERT - Reconciliation JASMINE (yellow) -
Grace and elegance
FIR - Time JONQUIL - Can you
return my love?; I
desire a return of
your affection
FLAX - Domestic industry; fate; I feel your kindness
FLEUR-DE-LIS - Message JUDAS-TREE -
Betrayal; unbelief
FLOWER-OF-AN-HOUR - Delicate beauty KINGCUP - Riches
FLOWERING ALMOND - Hope LABURNUM - Forsaken,
pensive beauty
FORGET-ME-NOT - Constancy; true love LADY'S SLIPPER -
Capricious beauty;
win and wear me
FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER - Be mine LADY'S SMOCK - Ardor
FOUR-O'CLOCK - Timidity LADY'S THIMBLE -
Grief; submission
FOXGLOVE - Insincerity; stateliness; youth LADY'S-TRESSES -
Bewitching grace
FOXTAIL GRASS - Sporting LANTANA - I am unyielding
FUCHSIA - Confiding love LAPAGERIA - There is
no unalloyed good
Fumitory - Spleen LARCH - Audacity; boldness.
FURZE - Anger; love for all occasions LARKSPUR (pink) -
Fickleness
GARDENIA - Refinement LARKSPUR (Purple) -
Haughtiness
GENTIAN (closed) - Sweet be thy dreams LAUREL - Perfidy; treachery
Gentian (fringed) - I look to heaven LAUREL (ground) -
Perseverance; token
GERANIUM - Gentility; peaceful mind LAUREL (mountain) -
Ambition
GERANIUM (dark) - Melancholy LAURESTINE - I die if
neglected
GERANIUM (fish) - Disappointed expectation; LAVENDER -
Acknowledgment; distrust
failure
GERANIUM (horseshoe) - Stupidity LEAVES (dead); Sadness
GERANIUM (Ivy) - Favour LEMON - Discretion
GERANIUM (lemon) - Unexpected meeting LETTUCE - Cold-hearted
GERANIUM (nutmeg) - Expected meeting LICHEN - Dejection;
refusal; solitude
GERANIUM (oak) - True friendship LILAC (purple) -
Fastidiousness; first love
LILAC (white) - Youthful innocence ORCHID - You are a
belle; you flatter me
LILY (calla) - Maiden modesty; beauty ORCHIS (bee) - Error;
industry
LILY (day) - Coquetry ORCHIS (butterfly) - Gaiety
LILY (frog) - Disgust ORCHIS (fly) - Error
LILY (tiger) - I dare you to love me OXEYE - Be patient
LILY ( water) - Purity of heart PALM - Victory
LILY (white) - Purity and sweetness PANSY - Modesty;
pleasant thoughts; think
of me
LILY (yellow) - Coquetry, falsehood, flirtation; PARSLEY - Useful
knowledge; festivity
gaiety
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY - Perfect purity; return of PASQUEFLOWER - You
have no claims
happiness PASSION FLOWER -
Faith; holy love;
religious fervour
and superstition
LINDEN - Conjugal love
LIVE-OAK - Liberty PEA (Everlasting) -
Appoint a meeting;
lasting pleasure
LIVERWORT - Confidence PEACH-BLOSSOM - I am
your captive
LOBELIA - Arrogance; malevolence PEAR-BLOSSOM - Not
altogether lovely
LOCUST - Affection beyond the grave; vicissitude PENNYROYAL - You had
better go
LONDON-PRIDE - Frivolity PEONY - Anger; indignation
LOTUS - Estranged love PEPPER-FLOWER -
Satirical thoughts
LOVE-IN-A-MIST - Perplexity PERIWINKLE (blue) -
Early friendship
LOVE-LIES-Bleeding - Hopeless but not PERIWINKLE (white) -
Harmony; pleasure
heartless of memory
LUCERNE - Life PERSICARIA - Restoration
LUPINE - Voraciousness PERSIMMON-BLOSSOM -
Bury me amid
nature's beauties;
I shall surprise you
LUPINE (rose) - Fanciful by and by
LUPINE (white) - Always happy PETUNIA- You soothe me
MADDER - Backbiting- tranquillity PHEASANT'S-EYE - I
cannot forget you
MAGNOLIA - Benevolence; high-souled; love of PHLOX - Unanimity
nature; magnificence PHLOX (star-shaped) -
Affability; trying
to please you
MAGNOLIA (swamp) - Perseverance PIMPERNEL -
Assignation; change
MAIZE - Riches PINE - Pity
MALLOW - Mildness PINK (double-red) -
Ardent love
MANCHINEEL - Falsehood PINK (Indian) -
Always lovely
MANDRAKE - I wound to soothe PINK (mountain) -
Aspiration
MAPLE - Reserve; retirement PINK (variegated) - Refusal
MARIGOLD - Cruelty in love- inquietude PINK (white) -
Fascination- talent
MARJORAM - Blushes PLUM (wild) - Independence
MARSHMALLOW - Beneficence in consent PLUMBAGO - Holy wishes
MARVEL-OF-PERU - Timidity PLUM-BLOSSOM - Keep
your promises
MEADOW-SAFFRON - My best days are past POLYANTHUS - Purse-proud
MEADOWSWEET - Uselessness POMEGRANATE BLOSSOM -
Mature
elegance; perfection
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM - Idleness POPPY (red) - Consolation
MEZEREON - Desire to please POPPY (scarlet) -
Fantastic extravagance
MIGNONETTE - Your qualities surpass your POPPY (variegated) -
Flirtation
charms
MILFORD - War POPPY (white) -
Forgetfulness
MILK-VETCH - Your presence softens my pain; POTENTILLA - I claim
your esteem
comfort
MIMOSA - Exquisite, fastidious PRIDE OF CHINA - Dissension
MINT - Let us be friends again; virtue PRINCE'S FEATHER - I
blush for you
MISTLETOE - I surmount difficulties; I want to be PRIMROSE - Believe
me; youth and
kissed; you are a parasite sadness
PRIMROSE (evening) -
Inconstancy
MOCK-ORANGE - Counterfeit PRIMROSE (red) -
Neglected merit
MONARDA - Your whims are unbearable PRIVET - Prohibition
MONKSHEAD - Danger is near PYXIE - Life is sweet
MONK'S-HOOD - Chivalry QUAKING-GRASS - My
heart is agitated
MOONFLOWER - I only dream of love QUAMOCLIT - Busybody
MORNING-BRIDE - I have lost all QUEEN-OF-THE-MEADOWS
Uselessness
MORNING-GLORY - Affection QUINCE-BLOSSOM - Temptation
MOSCHATEL - Weakness RAGGED-ROBIN - Ardor
MOSS - Ennui RANUNCULUS - I am
dazzled by your
charms
MOSS ROSEBUD - Confession of love RASPBERRY-BLOSSOM - Remorse
MOTHERWORT - Concealed love RHODODENDRON - Beware; I am
dangerous
MOUNTAIN ASH - Prudence ROCKET - Rivalry
MOURNING-BRIDE - Unfortunate to attachments ROSE - Love
MUDWORT - Happiness, peace ROSE (Austrian) - You
are all that is lovely
MULBERRY (black) - I shall not survive you; ROSE (bridal) - Happy love
sadness
MULBERRY (white) - Wisdom ROSE (Burgundy) -
Unconscious beauty
MULLEIN - Take courage ROSE (cabbage) -
Ambassador of love
MUSK-PLANT - Be bolder ROSE (Carolina) -
Love is dangerous
MUSTARD - I smart; I am hurt ROSE (China) - Beauty
always new
MYRTLE - Love in absence ROSE (Damask) -
Beauty ever new; young
and brilliant
MYRTLE (wax) - Discipline; instruction ROSE (deep-red) -
Admiration; bashful;
embarrassment
NANDINA - My love will grow warmer ROSE (full-blown) -
Engagement
NARCISSUS - Egotism; you love yourself too well ROSE (guelder) - Age;
winter
NASTURTIUM - Patriotism ROSE (half-blown) -
Timid love
NETTLE - Slander; you are spiteful ROSE (Jacqueminot)- I
am true
NIGHTSHADE - Your thoughts are dark ROSE (Japan) - Beauty
is your only
attraction; illusion
OAK - Hospitality ROSE (marechal niel)
- Yours, heart and
soul
OAT - I love your music ROSE (montiflora) - Grace
OLEANDER - Beware ROSE (moss) - Superior
OLIVE - Peace ROSE (musk) -
Capricious beauty
ORANGE-BLOSSOM -Chastity ROSE (rock) - Popular
favour
ROSE (thornless) - Ingratitude SUNFLOWER (large) -
You are splendid
ROSE (white) - I am worthy of your love; silence SWEET BASIL - Good wishes
ROSE (white, withered) - I am in despair SWEETPEA - Depart;
departure; remember
me
ROSE (wild) - Charming simplicity SWEET-WILLIAM - Grant
me one smile
ROSE (yellow) - Jealousy; let us forget SYRINGA - You shall
be happy yet
ROSE (York-and-Lancaster) - Conflict TAMARISK - Crime
ROSEBUD (red) - Inclined to love TANSY - Resistance
ROSEBUD (white) - Too young to love TEAZEL- Misanthropy
ROSE-LEAF - You may hope THISTLE - Austerity;
sternness
ROSEMARY - Remember me THISTLE (Scotch) -
Retaliation
RUDBECKIA - Impartiality THORN-APPLE -
Delusive beauty
RUE - Disdain THRIFT - Sympathy
SAINFOIN - You confuse me TRILLIUM - Modest ambition
SATINFLOWER - Fascination TRUMPET-FLOWER - Fame
SAFFRON - Beware of excess TUBEROSE - Dangerous
pleasures;
voluptuousness;
you are perfectly
SAGE - Domestic virtues lovely
SALVIA (blue) - Wisdom TULIP (red) -
Declaration of love
SALVIA (red) - Untiring energy TULIP (variegated) -
Enchantment; your
eyes are beautiful
SAXIFRAGE - Affection TULIP (yellow) -
Hopeless love
SCABIOUS - Unfortunate love TULIP TREE BLOSSOM -
Rural happiness
SCABIOUS (sweet) - Widowhood TURNIP BLOSSOM - Charity
SEA-BINDWEED - Uncertainty TUSSILAGE - You shall
have justice
SENSITIVE-PLANT - Fine sensibility VALERIAN - An accommodating
disposition
SENVY - I smart VENUS'S FLY-TRAP -
Duplicity
SHAMROCK - Loyalty VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS
- Flattery
SHEPHERD'S PURSE - I offer you my all VERBENA - Pray for
me; tender and quick
emotion
SMILAX - Constancy VERONICA - Fidelity
SNAPDRAGON - No; presumption VERVAIN -
Enchantment; superstition
SNOWBALL - Bound thoughts of heaven VIOLET (blue) -
Faithfulness, love
SNOWDROP - Consolation; friendship in trouble; VIOLET (white) -
Candour; modesty
hope
SORREL (wild) - Ill-timed wit VIRGINIA CREEPER - I
cling to you
SORREL (wood) - Secret sweetness VIRGIN'S BOWER -
Filial love
SOUTHERNWOOD - Bantering; jest WAKE-ROBIN - Ardor-zeal
SPEEDWELL - Womanly fidelity WALLFLOWER - Fidelity
in misfortune
SPIDERFLOWER - Not so bad as I seem WAX-PLANT - Susceptibility
SPIDERWORT - Esteem but not love WHEAT - Prosperity
ST. JOHN'S-WORT - Animosity WISTARIA - Cordial welcome
STAR OF BETHLEHEM - Atonement WITCH-HAZEL
-Inspiration; Mysticism;
a spell is upon me
STARWORT - Afterthought WOLFSBANE - Misanthropy
STEPHANOTIS - Come to me WOODBINE - Fraternal love
STOCK - Lasting beauty WORMWOOD - Absence
STONECROP - Tranquillity XANTHIUM -
Pertinacity; rudeness
STRAW - Agreement YARROW - Cure for heartache
SUMAC - I shall survive the change ZEPHYRANTHES - Expectation
SUMAC (dwarf) - Adoration ZINNIA - Thoughts of
absent friends
Steve
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rei...@pmafire.inel.gov
JaniceS191
I was looking for something like this and this was it.
Is there more flowers on the list???? it ended at Lavender....
WEll thank you again!
-Janice (who wants flowers for the meaning as well as the looks!)