Flower Meanings


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Flowers have a great impact upon our everyday lives. They allow us to express out "true feelings" of one another without even realizing. Each flower has a basic meaning, but by adding a specific color the meaning completely changes. Below is a list of flowers and their meanings.


ACACIA~~The ability to love in secret, or to maintain a platonic relationship

APRICOTE BLOSSOM~~One who is timid or shy when in love

AMARYLLIS~~Pride or spendid beauty

ASTER~~Daintiness

AZALEA~~Fragile and Ephemeral Passion

BABY'S BREATH~~Happiness

BEGONIA~~"Beware! I am fanciful!"

BLUEBELL~~Humility, delicacy and constancy

BUTTERCUP~~Childishness

CACTUS~~Bravery and endurance

CAMELLIA~~Excellence, admiration, perfections, good luck gift to a man

CANTERBURY BELL~~Constancy and warning

CARDINAL~~Splendor and distinction

CARNATION~~Fascination, heartache, pure and ardent love
Red Carnation~~Admiration
Pink Carnation~~Emblem of Mother's Day
White Carnation~~Pure Love
Yellow Carnation~~Disdain and rejection
Purple Carnation~~Antipathy

CHRYSANTHEMUM~~Feelings of love, cheerfulness and optimism
Red~~I love thee
Yellow~~Slighted love
White~~Truth

DAFFODIL~~Admiration, regard, the only one

DAHLIA~~Good taste

DAISY~~Innocene, loyal love

DANDELION~~Faithfulness, happiness

FORGET~ME~NOT~~Lasting memories, true and faithful love

GARDENIA~~Secret love, lonely love

HEATHER~~Admiration, beauty, luck,
Purple Heather~~Admiration, beauty, and solitude
Pink Heather~~Good Luck
White Heather~~Protection from danger

HONEYSUCKLE~~A wedding will follow shortly, sweetness

HIBISCUS~~Delicate beauty

HYDRANGEA~~Vanity

IRIS~~Faith, wisdom, valor and hope

JASAMINE~~Happiness, timid, and modesty
Red Jasmine~~Glee, happiness
White Jasmine~~Amiability and cheerfulness
Yellow Jasmine~~Timidity and modesty

LAVENDER~~Constancy

LILAC~~Acceptibility, youth
Mauve Lilac~~"Do You Still Love Me"
Pink Lilac~~Youth and Acceptance
White Lilac~~My First Dream Of Love

LILY~~Beauty, disdain, hatred, purity
Calla Lily~~Majestic Beauty
Orange~~Hatred and Disdain
White Lily~~Majesty and Purity
Lily~Of~The~Valley~~Purity and Humility

LOTUS~~Mystery and truth

MAGNOLIA~~Dignity, splendid beauty

MYRTLE~~Love, mirth and joy

ORCHID~~Loveliness" flower of magnificence

PANSY~~Thoughtful recollection

PASSIONFLOWER~~Faith and piety

PEACH BLOSSOM~~Generosity and bridal hope

PEAR BLOSSOM~~Health and hope

PERIWINKLE, BLUE~~Early Friendship

PERIWINKLE, WHITE~~Pleasures of Memory

PETUNIA~~Anger and resentment

PEONY~~Healing, Life and Prosperity

PLUM BLOSSOM~~Beauty and longevity

POINSETTA~~"Be of Good Cheer"

POPPY~~Imagination and dreaminess

PRIMROSE~~Young love

QUEEN ANN'S LACE~~Fantasy

RHODODENDRON~~Danger, be careful

ROSE, BRIDAL~~Love

ROSE, CAROLINA~~Dangerous love

ROSE, CHRISTMAS~~Peace and tranquility

ROSE, MUSK~~Beauty

ROSE, PINK~~Love,happiness,respect and friendship

ROSE, RED~~Desire,passion and love

ROSE, WHITE~~Innocense,purity

ROSE, WHITE ON RED~~Unity

ROSE, YELLOW~~Jealousy & possible infidelity

ROSEMARY~~Loyalty

SUNFLOWER~~Devotion

TIGER LILY~~Wealth,prosperity,and pride

TULIP~~Symbol of the perfect lover, and fame

VIOLET~~Simplicity

WALLFLOWER~~Friendship and adversity

WATER LILY~~Eloquence and persuasion

WISTERIA~~Youth and poetry


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