Flower Meanings

The following is a list of several dozen varieties of flowers, each followed by a description of the thought, feeling or desire expressed by the giver when such a flower is presented to the receiver.

ACACIA (rose or white): elegance; friendship; chaste love ACACIA (yellow): secret love ACONITE: Lustre; misanthropy ADONIS: sad memories AGRIMONY: gratitude ALLSPICE: compassion ALMOND (common): indiscretion; perfidy ALOE: grief; misplaced devotion; religious superstition 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 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): afterthoughts; love of variety AURICULA (scarlet): pride AURICULA: painting; wealth is not always happiness AZALEA: moderation; temperance; your blush has won me 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): unpretending excellence; innate warmth 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 (red): Alas! for my poor heart 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 DANDELION: coquetry; love's oracle DAPHNE: fame; glory DARNEL: vice DEW-PLANT: serenade 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 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-O'CLOCK: timidity FOXGLOVE: insincerity; stateliness; youth FOXTAIL GRASS: sporting FUCHSIA: confiding love FUMITORY: spleen FURZE (gorse): anger; love for all occasions; enduring affection GARDEN DAISY: share your sentiments GARDENIA: refinement 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 GLADIOLUS: ready-armed; strength of character 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; you occupy my thoughts HEATH: solitude 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; sweet 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 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 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 JUSTICIA: the perfection of female loveliness 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; fidelity in love 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; modesty LILY (yellow): coquetry, falsehood, flirtation 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; tranquility 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 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 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; your purity equals your loveliness; happiness and fertility ORANGE FLOWERS: chastity ORCHID: You are a belle; you flatter me 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; shame PEPPER-FLOWER: satirical thoughts PERIWINKLE (blue): early friendship PERIWINKLE (white): harmony; pleasure of memory PERSICARIA: restoration 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 QUAMOCLIT: busybody QUEEN-OF-THE-MEADOWS: uselessness QUINCE-BLOSSOM: temptation RAGGED-ROBIN: ardor RANUNCULUS: I am dazzled by your charms 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 (Gloire de Dijon): A messanger of love 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 (pink): Ours must be secret love ROSE (red): unity, romantic love ROSE (rock): popular favour ROSE (thornless): ingratitude ROSE (white): I am worthy of your love; silence; innocent love ROSE (white, withered): I am in despair ROSE (wild): charming simplicity ROSE (yellow): jealousy; let us forget; love is waning; friendship 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 SAGE: domestic virtues; great respect 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 TANSY (wild): I declare war against you TULIP (red): declaration of love VIOLET (blue): faithful love WILLOW (creeping): love force

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