Flowers That Start With C

34 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 34 flowers that start with C, 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.

C has 34 flowers, one of the longest lists. Florist favorites include the carnation, chrysanthemum, camellia and calla, a South African plant with a pure white spathe. Crocus and cosmos are easy garden flowers for beginners.

Look for word families. Crown appears in crown imperial, crown beard and crown daisy, and corn shows up in cornflower, corn lily and corn poppy. The cyclamen is a Mediterranean plant often grown indoors, and the clematis is a climber with star-shaped flowers. The calypso is a rare bog orchid.

Flowers starting with C: 34
Best known: cosmos, columbine
Longest name: cascade everlasting

Best-known flowers that start with C

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

cosmos
columbine
carnation
chrysanthemum
crocus
calla
cornflower
cyclamen
calendula
camellia
clematis

All flowers that start with C

#	Name	What it is
1	calendula	any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers
2	calico aster	a variety of aster
3	calla	South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
4	calypso	rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect...
5	camas	any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America
6	camellia	evergreen shrub with large rose-like pink, red or white flowers
7	campion	any plant of the genus Silene
8	carnation	Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers
9	cascade everlasting	shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays
10	cat's-ear	any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears
11	cattleya	any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column
12	checkered lily	any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers
13	cheddar pink	mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers
14	china pink	Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual
15	chrysanthemum	the flower of a chrysanthemum plant
16	clematis	climbing vine with large star-shaped colorful flowers
17	clove pink	Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers
18	coast lily	orange-flowered lily of Pacific coast of United States
19	columbine	a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains
20	common daisy	low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers
21	coral drops	half-hardy Mexican herb cultivated for its drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white flowers
22	coral root	a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in...
23	corn lily	any of several South African plants of the genus Ixia having grasslike leaves and clusters of showy variously colored...
24	corn poppy	annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated
25	cornflower	an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
26	cosmos	any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate...
27	cottage pink	European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers
28	cottage tulip	any of several long-stemmed tulips that flower in May; have egg-shaped variously colored flowers
29	crocus	any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple...
30	crown beard	any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads
31	crown daisy	shrubby annual of the Mediterranean region with yellowish-white flowers
32	crown imperial	Eurasian herb with a cluster of leaves and orange-red bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
33	cuckoo flower	common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
34	cyclamen	Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding...

Short flowers with C

calla
camas

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with C?

This list has 34 flowers starting with C, from well-known ones like cosmos, columbine, carnation to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with C?

Well-known examples are cosmos, columbine, carnation, chrysanthemum, crocus, calla, cornflower, cyclamen.

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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