Flowers That Start With B

31 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 31 flowers that start with B, 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.

B is a big flower letter, with 31 names. Bluebell, buttercup and begonia are simple starting points for children, and the bleeding heart is easy to remember for its dangling heart-shaped pink flowers.

Many names are playful pictures: baby's breath, bachelor's button, billy buttons and brass buttons. Blue appears often too, in blue flag, blue daisy, blue poppy and blue orchid. The bee orchid has flowers shaped and colored like bumble bees. The bougainvillea climbs walls with papery bright pink or purple bracts.

Flowers starting with B: 31
Best known: bluebell, baby's breath
Longest name: bachelor's button

Best-known flowers that start with B

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

bluebell
baby's breath
begonia
bachelor's button
bleeding heart
bougainvillea
buttercup

All flowers that start with B

#	Name	What it is
1	baby's breath	tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers
2	bachelor's button	tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
3	bearded iris	any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals)
4	bee orchid	European orchid whose flowers resemble bumble bees in shape and color
5	begonia	any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers...
6	billy buttons	any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers
7	blackberry-lily	garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry
8	blazing star	biennial of southwestern United States having white stems and toothed leaves that is grown for its large pale yellow...
9	bleeding heart	garden plant with dangling pink heart-shaped flowers
10	blood lily	any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia
11	blue columbine	columbine of the Rocky Mountains having long-spurred blue flowers
12	blue daisy	hairy South African or Australian subshrub that has daisylike flowers with blue rays
13	blue flag	a common iris of the eastern United States having blue or blue-violet flowers; root formerly used medicinally
14	blue marguerite	hairy South African or Australian subshrub that has daisylike flowers with blue rays
15	blue orchid	famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers
16	blue poppy	Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes
17	bluebell	sometimes placed in genus Scilla
18	bog aster	a variety of aster
19	bog candles	orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems
20	bog rose	a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada
21	bougainvillea	climbing plant with papery bright pink or purple bracts
22	brass buttons	South African herb with golden-yellow globose flower heads
23	bride's bonnet	plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana
24	brown bells	California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers
25	bush violet	any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers
26	bushy aster	stiff perennial of the eastern United States having small linear leaves and numerous tiny white flower heads
27	butter daisy	coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb; southwestern United States to Mexico
28	buttercup	small wildflower with shiny bright yellow cup-shaped petals
29	butterfly flower	any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers
30	butterfly orchid	orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Epidendrum
31	button pink	much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with B?

This list has 31 flowers starting with B, from well-known ones like bluebell, baby's breath, begonia to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with B?

Well-known examples are bluebell, baby's breath, begonia, bachelor's button, bleeding heart, bougainvillea, buttercup.

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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