Flowers That Start With H

13 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 13 flowers that start with H, 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.

H holds 13 flowers, and most are easy to find in gardens. The hydrangea has big round clusters of blue, pink or white flowers, the hibiscus has large trumpet-shaped blooms, and the hollyhock grows very tall with flowers along its stem.

The hyacinth is a spring bulb, and the heather is a low shrub with tiny bell flowers. The honeysuckle listed here is a red columbine of eastern North America. Less familiar picks include the hellebore, the helmet orchid and the horned poppy, a yellow flower of sandy shores.

Flowers starting with H: 13
Best known: hyacinth, honeysuckle
Longest name: helmet orchid

Best-known flowers that start with H

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

hyacinth
honeysuckle
heather
hibiscus
hollyhock
hydrangea

All flowers that start with H

#	Name	What it is
1	heal all	common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits
2	heath aster	common much-branched North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small starry white flowers
3	heather	low shrub with tiny purple or pink bell flowers
4	hedge pink	plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
5	hellebore	perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
6	helmet orchid	any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped...
7	hibiscus	tropical shrub with large trumpet-shaped colorful flowers
8	hollyhock	very tall plant with large flowers along its stem
9	honeysuckle	columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers
10	horn poppy	yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
11	horned poppy	yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
12	hyacinth	any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs
13	hydrangea	shrub with big round clusters of blue, pink or white flowers

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with H?

This list has 13 flowers starting with H, from well-known ones like hyacinth, honeysuckle, heather to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with H?

Well-known examples are hyacinth, honeysuckle, heather, hibiscus, hollyhock, hydrangea.

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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