Flowers That Start With D

13 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 13 flowers that start with D, 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.

D offers 13 flowers, and children usually know three already: daisy, daffodil and dandelion. The dandelion is the yellow wildflower whose heads turn into fluffy seed balls for blowing.

Gardeners will add the dahlia, the delphinium and the day lily. Smaller or rarer picks include the dwarf iris, the dwarf tulip and the disa, an orchid with dark green leaves. Dusty miller is an old cottage garden plant, and dragon's mouth is a bog orchid with a magenta pink blossom, a fun name for any story.

Flowers starting with D: 13
Best known: daisy, dahlia
Longest name: dragon's mouth

Best-known flowers that start with D

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

daisy
dahlia
daffodil
day lily
delphinium
dandelion

All flowers that start with D

#	Name	What it is
1	daffodil	any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown
2	dahlia	any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously...
3	daisy	any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl
4	dandelion	common wildflower with yellow heads that become fluffy seed balls
5	day lily	any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers...
6	delphinium	any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers
7	dendrobium	a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers
8	disa	any orchid of the genus Disa
9	double gold	very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads
10	dragon's mouth	a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada
11	dusty miller	an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy...
12	dwarf iris	low-growing spring-flowering American iris with bright blue-lilac flowers
13	dwarf tulip	small early blooming tulip

Short flowers with D

daisy
disa

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with D?

This list has 13 flowers starting with D, from well-known ones like daisy, dahlia, daffodil to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with D?

Well-known examples are daisy, dahlia, daffodil, day lily, delphinium, dandelion.

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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