Flowers That Start With A

12 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 12 flowers that start with A, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

A brings twelve flowers. The aster, azalea, anemone and amaryllis are popular in gardens and bouquets, and the alstroemeria, a Peruvian lily, is a florist favorite because its blooms last a long time.

Wild flowers make up the rest. The arctic poppy grows in cold northern lands, and the avalanche lily has white flowers marked with orange. The adobe lily is a pinkish purple herb from California. Asters appear three ways here, as plain aster, aromatic aster and azure aster, which shows how one flower can branch into many names.

Flowers starting with A: 12
Best known: aster, anemone
Longest name: avalanche lily

Best-known flowers that start with A

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

aster
anemone
amaryllis
alstroemeria
azalea

All flowers that start with A

#	Name	What it is
1	adobe lily	California herb with pinkish purple flowers
2	alstroemeria	Peruvian lily with striped, long-lasting colorful flowers
3	amaryllis	bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers
4	amber lily	plant having basal grasslike leaves and a narrow open cluster of starlike yellowish-orange flowers atop a leafless stalk
5	anemone	any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves
6	arctic poppy	subarctic perennial poppy of both hemispheres having fragrant white or yellow to orange or peach flowers
7	arethusa	any of several bog orchids of the genus Arethusa having 1 or 2 showy flowers
8	aromatic aster	a variety of aster
9	aster	any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers
10	avalanche lily	perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States
11	azalea	flowering shrub with bright pink, red or white blooms
12	azure aster	a variety of aster

Short flowers with A

aster

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with A?

This list has 12 flowers starting with A, from well-known ones like aster, anemone, amaryllis to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with A?

Well-known examples are aster, anemone, amaryllis, alstroemeria, azalea.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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