Flowers That Start With F

14 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 14 flowers that start with F, 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.

F has 14 flowers. The forget-me-not is the tiny blue flower with a yellow center, and the foxglove is the tall spike of tube-shaped purple or pink blooms. The freesia is loved for its scent in bouquets.

Orchids make up a big share of the rest: fly orchid, frog orchid, fragrant orchid and fen orchid. The four o'clock is named for flowers that open late in the day. Fairy lantern and fairy-slipper are two of the prettiest names on the page, good for stories and poems.

Flowers starting with F: 14
Best known: freesia, forget-me-not
Longest name: fragrant orchid

Best-known flowers that start with F

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

freesia
forget-me-not
foxglove

All flowers that start with F

#	Name	What it is
1	fairy lantern	any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers
2	fairy-slipper	rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect...
3	fawn lily	California dogtooth violet with creamy white flowers sometimes yellow-tinged
4	fen orchid	small terrestrial orchid of eastern North America and Europe having two nearly basal leaves and dull yellow-green...
5	field poppy	annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated
6	fire pink	perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals
7	flaming poppy	California wild poppy with bright red flowers
8	fly orchid	any of several dwarf creeping orchids with small bizarre insect-like hairy flowers on slender stalks
9	forget-me-not	tiny blue flower with a yellow center
10	four o'clock	any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon
11	foxglove	tall plant with spikes of tube-shaped purple or pink flowers
12	fragrant orchid	European orchid having dense spikes of fragrant pink or lilac or red flowers with conspicuous spurs
13	freesia	any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or...
14	frog orchid	any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with F?

This list has 14 flowers starting with F, from well-known ones like freesia, forget-me-not, foxglove to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with F?

Well-known examples are freesia, forget-me-not, foxglove.

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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