The Language of Flowers
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APPLE BLOSSOM – Preference, Better Things to Come, Good Fortune
ARBUTUS – Thee Only Do I Love
ARUM – Ardor
ASPARAGUS FERN – Fascination
ASPHODEL – My Regrets Follow You to the Grave
ASTER – Symbol of Love, Daintiness, Talisman of Love
ASTER (CHINA) – Fidelity, Variety, I Will Think of Thee
AZALEA – Take Care, Temperance, Fragile, Passion, Chinese Symbols of Womanhood
B
BABY’S BREATH – Innocence, Pure of Heart
•BACHELOR BUTTON – Single blessedness, Celibacy
•BALM – Sympathy
•BALSAM – Ardent Love
•BEGONIA – Beware, A Fanciful Nature
•BELLS OF IRELAND – Good luck
•BIRD OF PARADISE – Often given today from a woman to man as a symbol of faithfulness
•BITTERSWEET – Truth
•BLACK BRYONT/LADY’S SEAL – Be My Support
•BLUEBELL/BELL FLOWER – Humility, Constancy, Gratitude
•BROOM – Humility, Neatness
•BUCK BEAN – Calm repose
•BUTTERCUP – Childishness, Riches
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•CACTUS – Endurance, My Heart Burns with Love
•CALYCANTHUS/CAROLINA ALLSPICE/SWEET SHRUB – Benevolence
•CALLA LILY – Magnificent Beauty
•CAMELLIA – Admiration, Perfection, Good Luck Gift for a Man, Gratitude
•CAMELLIA (PINK) – Longing
•CAMELLIA (RED) – You’re a flame in my heart
•CAMELLIA (WHITE) – Adoration, Perfection, Loveliness
•CANDYTUFT – Indifference
•CANTERBURY BELLS/BELL FLOWER – Gratitude
•CARDINAL FLOWER/SCARLET LOBELIA – Distinction
•CARNATION (GENERAL) – Fascination, Devoted Love
•CARNATION (PINK) – I’ll never forget you, Women’s Love
•CARNATION (RED) – My heart aches for you, Admiration
•CARNATION (DEEP RED) – Alas! for my poor heart
•CARNATION (PURPLE) – Capriciousness
•CARNATION (SOLID COLOR) – Yes
•CARNATION (STRIPED) – No, Refusal, Sorry I can’t be with you, Wish I could be with you
•CARNATION (WHITE) – Sweet & Lovely, Innocence, Pure Love, Woman’s Good Luck Gift
•CARNATION (YELLOW) – Disappointment, Rejection
•CATCHFLY (RED) – Youthful Love, I Fall Victim
•CATTAIL – Peace, Prosperity
•CATTLEYA – Mature charms
•CEDAR – I live but for thee, Think of Me
•CELANDINE/PILEWORT/FIGWORT – Future Joy
•CHAMOMILE/GOLDEN MARGUERITE/ANTHEMIS – Energy in Action
•CHERRY BLOSSOM (SINGLE) – Education
•CHICKWEED – I Cling to Thee
•CHICORY – Frugality
•CHRISTMAS ROSE/HELLEBORUS – Relieve My Anxiety
•CHRYSANTHEMUM (GENERAL) – Abundance & Wealth,
•Cheerfulness, You’re a wonderful friend
•CHRYSANTHEMUM (RED) – Love
•CHRYSANTHEMUM (WHITE) – Truth
•CHRYSANTHEMUM (YELLOW) – Slighted Love
•CINQUEFOIL – Beloved Child
•CLEMATIS – Artifice (ingenuity)
•CLOVER (FOUR-LEAF) – Be Mine
•CLOVER (WHITE) – Think of Me
•CLOVER (RED) – Industry
•COLCHICUM (MEADOW SAFFRON) – My Best Days Fled
•COLUMBINE (PURPLE) – Resolved to Win
•COLUMBINE (RED) – Anxious
•COMPASS FLOWER – Faith
•CONVOLVUS MINOR/BINDWEED – Uncertainty
•CORCHORUS – Impatience of Happiness
•COREOPSIOS – Always Cheerful
•CORNFLOWER – Delicacy, refinement,
•CORONILLA/CROWN VETCH – Success to You
•COWSLIP – Rusticity, Winning Grace, Healing, Youth, Pensiveness
•COXCOMB – Foppery, Unfading Love
•CROCUS – Cheerfulness, Abuse not, Gladness
•CROWN IMPERIAL/FRITILLARIA – Majesty
•CYCLAMEN – Resignation and Good-Bye
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•DAFFODIL – Regard, Unrequited Love, Sunshine, Respect, The sun shines when I’m with you
•DAFFODIL (YELLOW ) – Chivalry
•DAHLIA – Dignity and Elegance, Forever Thine
•DAISY – Innocence, Loyal Love, I’ll Never tell, Purity, Beauty
•DAISY OX-EYE – Patience
•DAISY (RED) – Beauty Unknown to Possessor
•DANDELION – Faithfulness, Happiness, Love’s oracle
•DAPHANE CNEORUM/ROSE DAPHANE – I Desire to Please
•DAPHANE ODORA/WINTER DAPHANE – I Would Not Have You Otherwise
•DRACAENA/DRAGON’S BLOOD/DRAGON LILY – Inner Power
•DEAD LEAVES – Sadness
•DELPHINIUM – Big-Hearted, Fun
•DILL – Lust
•DIOSMA – Your Simple Elegance Charms Me
•DOG ROSE – Pleasure and Pain
•DOGWOOD (FLOWERING) – Am I Indifferent to You?
•DRAGON ROOT/GREEN DRAGON (Arum draconium) – Ardor
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•EDELWEISS/ALPINE CUDWEED – Daring, Courage, Noble Purity
•EGLANTINE/SWEET-BRIAR/ROSA EGLANTARIA – Poetry, I Wound to Heal
•ELDER FLOWER – Zeal
•ENDINE – Frugality
•EPIGAEA, REPENS/MAYFLOWER/TRAILING ARBUTUS – Budding
•EUPATORIUM/HARDY AGERATUM – Delay
•EREMURUS – Endurance
•EUPHORBIA – Persistence
•EVERLASTING – Never Ceasing Memory
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•FERN – Magic, Fascination, Confidence, Shelter
•FERN (MAIDENHAIR) – Secret bond of love, Discretion
•FERN (ROYAL) – Reverie
•FILBERT – Reconciliation
•FIR – Time
•FLAX – Domestic Symbol
•FLORA’S BELL – Without Pretension
•FLOWERING REED – Confide in Heaven
•FORGET ME NOT – True Love, Memories
•FORSYTHIA – Anticipation
•FOXGLOVE/FAIRY THIMBLES/DEAD MEN’S BELLS – Stateliness, Youth
•FOXTAIL GRASS – Sporting
•FRAXINELLA/CULTIVATED DITTANY/GAS PLANT – Fire
•FREESIA – Innocence, Trust
•FUCHSIA (SCARLET) – Confiding Love, Taste
•FURZE – Love for All Occasions
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•GARDENIA – You’re lovely, Secret love, Purity, Refinement
•GARLIC – Courage, Strength, Get well, Ward Off Evil & Illness
•GENETIAN (FRINGED) – Intrinsic Worth, I Look to Heaven, Autumn
•GENTIAN (CLOSED) – Sweet Be Thy Dreams
•GERANIUM – True Friend, Stupidity, Folly
•GERANIUM (APPLE) – Present Preference
•GERANIUM (IVY) – Your Hand for Next Dance
•GERANIUM (LEMON) – Unexpected Meeting
•GERANIUM (NUTMEG) – I Expect a Meeting
•GERANIUM (OAK-LEAVED) – True Friendship, Lady, Deign to Smile
•GERANIUM (PENCILED) – Ingenuity
•GERANIUM (ROSE) – Preference
•GERANIUM (SCARLET) – Consolation, Melancholy
•GERANIUM (SILVER-LEAF) – Recall
•GERBERA – Innocence
•GLADIOLI – Generosity, I’m sincere, Flower of the gladiators
•GLOBE AMARANTH – Unfading Love
•GLOXINIA – Love at first sight
•GINGER – Strength
•GOLDEN-ROD – Be cautious, Encouragement
•GOOSEBERRY – Anticipation
•GOOSEFOOT – Goodness
•GORSE – Endearing Affection
•GRASS – Submission
•GRASS/CITRONELLA/CAMEL GRASS/LEMON GRASS/GINGER
•GRASS – Homosexual Love
•GUELDER ROSE/SNOWBALL – Winter
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•HAREBELL/CAMPANULA – Humility, Grief
•HEART’S EASR/PURPLE/JOHNNY JUMP UP – You Occupy My Thoughts
•HEPATICA (Anemone nobilis) – Confidence
•HEATHER (LAVENDER) – Admiration, Solitude
•HEATHER (WHITE) – Protection, Wishes will come true
•HELIOTROPE – Devotion
•HENBANE – For Males to Attract Love from Females
•HIBISCUS – Consumed by Love, Delicate Beauty
•HOLLY – Defense, Domestic Happiness, Am I forgotten
•HOLLYHOCK – Fruitfulness
•HOLLYHOCK (WHITE) – Female Ambition
•HONESTY/LUNARIA/DOLLAR PLANT/MONEY PLANT – Sincerity
•HONEYFLOWER – Sweet, Secret love, Generous Affection, Sweetness of Disposition
•HONEYSUCKLE – The Bond of Love
•HONEYSUCKLE (CORAL) – I Love You
•HOUSTONIA/BLUET/QUAKER LADIES – Content
•HOYA/WAX PLANT – Sculpture
•HUCKLEBERRY – Faith, Simple Pleasures
•HYACINTH (GENERAL) – Games & Sports, Rashness, Flower dedicated to Apollo
•HYACINTH (BLUE) – Consistency
•HYACINTH (PURPLE) – Sorry, Please forgive me, Sorrow
•HYACINTH (RED OR PINK) – Playful Joy
•HYACINTH (WHITE) – Unobtrusive Loveliness, I’ll pray for you
•HYACINTH (YELLOW) – Jealousy
•HYDRANGEA – Thank you for understanding, frigidity, heartlessness
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•IPOMACA – I Attach Myself to You
•INDIAN CRESS/NASTURTIUM – Resignation
•IRIS – Faith, Wisdom, Promise in Love, Hope, Wisdom & Valor
•IRIS (YELLOW) – Passion
•IRIS (GERMAN) – Flame
•IVY – Wedded Love, Fidelity, Friendship, Affection
•IVY (SPRIG OF WHITE TENDRILS)- Anxious to please, Affection
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•JAPONICA – Sincerity, Symbol of Love
•JASMINE (INDIAN) – Attachment
•JASMINE (SPANISH) – Sensuality
•JASMINE (YELLOW) – Modesty, Grace, Elegance
•JASMINE (WHITE) – Amiability
•JERUSALEM OAK – Your Love is Reciprocated
•JONQUIL – Love Me, Affection Returned, Desire, Sympathy
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•KENNEDIA – Intellectual Beauty
L
•LADY’S SLIPPER – Win me, Capricious Beauty LANTANA – Rigor
•LARKSPUR – Levity, An Open Heart, Lightness
•LAURISTINUS – Cheerful in Adversity
•LAVENDER – Love, Devotion,
•LEMON BLOSSOM – Fidelity in Love; I Promise to be True
•LILAC (GENERAL) – Beauty, Pride
•LILAC (PURPLE) – First emotions of love
•LILAC (WHITE) – Youthful Innocence
•LILY (GENERAL) – Majesty & Honor, Purity of Heart
•LILY (ORANGE) – Hatred, Dislike
•LILY (WHITE) – Virginity, Purity, Majesty, It’s Heavenly to be with You, Youth
•LILY (YELLOW) – I’m Walking On Air, False, Gay, Gratitude
•LILY (CALLA) – Beauty
•LILY (DAY) – Coquetry, Chinese Emblem For Mother
•LILY (EUCHARIS) – Maiden Charms
•LILY (TIGER) – Wealth, Pride, Prosperity
•LILY OF THE VALLEY – Sweetness, Tears Of The Virgin Mary, Happiness, Humility
•LIVERWORT – Confidence
•LOVE IN A MIST – You Puzzle Me
•LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING/AMARANTHUS – Hopeless, Not Heartless, Desertion
•LOTUS – Estranged love, Forgetful of the Past
•LUCERNE – Life
•LUNGWORT – Thou Art My Life
•LUPINE – Imagination
•LYCHNIS/CAMPION/MALTESE CROSS – Religious Enthusiasm
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•MAGNOLIA – Nobility, Perseverance, Nobility
•MAGNOLIA (CHINESE) – Love of Nature
•MALLOW – Delicate Beauty, Sweetness
•MARIGOLD (COMMON) – Pretty Love, Sacred,Affection, Caress, Sorrow
•MARJORAM – Joy, Happiness
•MARVEL OF PERU/FOUR O’ CLOCK – Timidity
•MEADOW SAFFRON – My Best Days Are Gone
•MIGNONETTE – Your qualities Surpass your Charms, Health
•MEZEREON – Desire to Please
•MILK VETCH – Your presence softens my pain
•MIMOSA – Secret Love
•MINT – Virtue
•MISTLETOE – Kiss me, Affection, Difficulties, Sacred plant of India,
•MONKSHOOD – Beware, Danger is near
•MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED – Simplicity
•MORNING GLORY – Affection
•MOSS – Maternal Love, Charity
•MOTHERWORT – Secret Love
•MOONWORT/HONESTY – Forgetfulness
•MUGWORT/WORMWOOD – Tranquility, Happiness
•MULLEIN – Good Nature
•MYRTLE – Love, Joy, Hebrew Emblem of marriage
•MYRTLE (WAX) – Discipline, Instruction
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•NARCISSUS – Formality, Stay As Sweet As You Are
•NASTURTIUM – Conquest, Victory In Battle
•NUTS – Stupidity
O
•OAK LEAVES – Bravery
•OLEANDER – Caution
•OLIVE BRANCH – Peace
•ORANGE BLOSSOM – Innocence, Eternal Love, Marriage, Fruitfulness
•ORANGE, MOCK – Deceit
•ORCHID – Love, Beauty, Refinement, Chinese Symbol for Many Children, Thoughtfulness
•ORCHID (CATTLEYA) – Mature Charm
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•PALM LEAVES – Victory & Success
•PANSY – Merriment, Thoughts (You Occupy My Thoughts)
•PARSLEY – Useful Knowledge
•PASSION FLOWER – Faith, Religious Fervor
•PASQUE FLOWER – Unpretentious, You Have No Claims
•PEAR – Affection
•PEACH BLOSSOM – I am your Captive
•PEONY – Shame, Happy Marriage, Compassion, Bashfulness
•PEPPERMINT – Cordiality
•PERIWINKLE/VINCA/MYRTLE – Early Recollections, Pleasures of Memories, Sweet Memories
•PETUNIA – Your Presence Soothes Me
•PHEASANT’S EYE/ADONIS – Sorrowful Memories
•PHLOX – Our souls are united, Unanimity
•PIMPERNEL/POOR MAN’S WEATHER GLASS – Change
•PINE – Hope, Pity
•PINK- Pure Affection
•PINK (MOUNTAIN) – You Are Aspiring
•POPPY (GENERAL) – Eternal Sleep, Oblivion, Imagination
•POPPY (RED) – Pleasure
•POPPY (WHITE) – Consolation
•POPPY (YELLOW ) – Wealth, Success
•POMEGRANATE FLOWER – Elegance
•PRIDE OF CHINA – Dissension
•PRIMROSE – I Can’t Live Without You, Woman
•PRIMROSE (EVENING) – Inconstancy
•PRIMROSE (RED) – Unpatronised Merit
•PRINCE’S FEATHER – Unfading Love
•PUSSY WILLOW – Motherhood
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•QUAKING GRASS – Agitation
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•RAGGED-ROBIN – Wit
•RANUNCULUS – I am Dazzled by your Charms
•REEDS – Music
•RHUBARB – Advice
•RHODODENDRON – Danger, Beware, I am Dangerous
•ROSE (BRIDAL) – Happiness
•ROSE (BURGANDY) – Unconscious Beauty
•ROSE (CHRISTMAS)- Relieve my anxiety
•ROSE (CORAL) – Desire
•ROSE (DAMASK) – Freshness, Persian Ambassador of Love
•ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) – Mourning
•ROSE (DOG) – Pleasure & Pain
•ROSE (GREEN) – I am from Mars
•ROSE (HIBISCUS) – Delicate, Beauty
•ROSE (LEAF) – You may Hope
•ROSE (LAVENDER) – Enchantment
•ROSE (ORANGE) – Fascination
•ROSE (PINK) – Perfect Happiness, Secret Love, Grace & Sweetness, Indecision
•ROSE (DARK PINK) – Thankfulness
•ROSE (PALE PINK) – Grace, Joy
•ROSE (PEACH) – Immortality, Modesty
•ROSE (RED) – Love, I love you, Respect, Beauty
•ROSE (DEEP RED) – Bashful, Shame
•ROSE (TEA) – I’ll Remember – Always
•ROSE (THORNLESS) – Love at first sight, Early Attachment
•ROSE (WHITE) – Innocence, Purity, Humility, I am Worthy of You, Secrecy, Silence
•ROSE (WHITE & RED TOGETHER) – Unity, Flower Emblem of England
•ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) – Death is Preferable to Loss of Virtue
•ROSE (YELLOW) – Joy, Jealousy, Friendship (one yellow rose with 11 red ones means love & passion)
•ROSEBUD – Beauty & Youth, A Heart Innocent of Love
•ROSEBUD (RED) – Pure & Lovely
•ROSEBUD (WHITE) – Girlhood, Heart Ignorant of Love
•ROSEBUD (MOSS) – Confessions of Love
•ROSES (Bouquet of full bloom) – Gratitude
•ROSES (Single full bloom) – I truly love you, Simplicity.
•ROSES (GARLAND or CROWN OF) – Beware of Virtue, Reward of Merit, Symbol of Superior Merit
•ROSE (MUSK CLUSTER) – Charming
•ROSE-OF-SHARON – Consumed by Love
•ROSEMARY – Remembrance
•RUSH/HORSE-TAIL – Docility
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•SAGE – Wisdom, Great Respect, Speedwell Female Fidelity
•SATIN-FLOWER – Sincerity
•SENSITIVE PLANT – Timidity
•SHAMROCK – Light-heartedness
•SLOE – Difficulty, Austerity SMILAX – Loveliness
•SNAPDRAGON – Gracious Lady, Strength
•SNOWBALL – Thoughts of Heaven
•SNOWDROP – Hope, Consolation
•SPEARMINT – Warm Sentiment
•SPIDER FLOWER – Elope with me
•SOLIDAGO – Success
•STAR OF BETHLEHEM – Atonement, Reconciliation
•STARWORT – Welcome to a Stranger
•STEPHANOTIS – Marital Happiness, Desire to Travel
•STOCK- Bonds of Affection, Promptness, You’ll Always Be Beautiful to Me
•STONECROP – Tranquillity
•STRAW FLOWER – Agreement
•STRAW (BROKEN) – Broken agreement
•SYTINGIA/MOCK ORANGE/LILAC – Memory
•SUNFLOWER (TALL) – False riches, Pride
•SUNFLOWER ( DWARF) – Adoration
•SWEETPEA – Good-by, Departure, Blissful Pleasure, Thank You for a Lovely Time
•SWEET-SULTAN – Felicity, Happiness
•SWEET-WILLIAM – Grant me one smile, Gallantry
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•TEASEL (Dipscaus) – Misanthropy
•THORNAPPLE – I dreamed of thee
•THRIFT (ARMERIA) – Sympathy
•TRAVELER’S JOY – Rest, Safety
•TRUMPET FLOWER/ANGEL’S TRUMPET/DATURA – Separation
•TULIP (GENERAL) – Perfect Lover, Fame, Flower Emblem of Holland
•TULIP (RED) -Believe me, Declaration of Love
•TULIP (VARIEGATED) – Beautiful eyes
•TULIP (YELLOW) – There’s Sunshine In Your Smile
•TURNIP – Charity
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•VALERIAN – Accommodating Disposition
•VENUS FLYTRAP – Caught at Last
•VENUS’ LOOKING GLASS – Flattery
•VERBENA – Pray for me, Sensibility
•VERONICA SPEEDWELL – Fidelity
•VERVAIN – Enchantment
•VINE – Intoxicating
•VIOLET – Modesty, Virtue, Affection
•VIOLET (BLUE) – Watchfulness, Faithfulness, Love
•VIOLET (WHITE) – Let’s Take A Chance On Happiness
•VIRGIN’S BOWER/CLEMATIS – Filial Love (Filial: referring to a son or daughter)
•VISCARIA – Will You Dance With Me?
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•WALL FLOWER/GILLY FLOWER – Faithful in Adversity, Fidelity, Lasting Beauty
•WINDFLOWER – Sincerity, Symbol of Love
•WINTERGREENS – Harmony
•WISTERIA – Welcome
•WITCH HAZEL – A spell
•WOLFBANE/ACONITE/TURK’S CAP/FRIAR’S CAP/BEAR’S FOOT – Misanthropy, Chivalry, Knight
•WOODBINE – Fraternal Love
•WORMWOOD/ARTEMISIA – Absence, Do not be discouraged
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•YARROW – Cure for heartache
Z
•ZEPHYR FLOWER- Sincerity, Symbol of Love
•ZINNIA (MAGENTA) – Lasting Affection
•ZINNIA (MIXED) – Thinking (or in memory) of an Absent Friend
•ZINNIA (SCARLET) – Constancy
•ZINNIA (WHITE) – Goodness
•ZINNIA (YELLOW) – Daily Remembrance
