Flowers That Start With P

21 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 21 flowers that start with P, 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.

P is one of the stronger letters for flowers, with 21 entries. Garden favourites lead the way: poppy, peony, petunia and pansy, whose petals carry a little face-like pattern. Young children often like pansy and pink, two quick names to write.

Two naming patterns stand out. Poppies come in several forms, such as plume poppy and prickly poppy. Prairie names form another cluster, from prairie sunflower to prairie aster. For something unusual, try protea, a South African plant with big cone-shaped flower heads, or the waxy white phantom orchid.

Flowers starting with P: 21
Best known: pink, poppy
Longest name: pearly everlasting

Best-known flowers that start with P

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

pink
poppy
peony
petunia
peace lily
pansy
periwinkle
primrose
protea

All flowers that start with P

#	Name	What it is
1	painted daisy	spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple...
2	pansy	small garden flower with a face-like pattern on its petals
3	panther lily	lily of western United States having orange-red to crimson maroon-spotted flowers
4	paper white	a daffodil having star-shaped white blossoms; often grown indoors to bloom in the winter
5	peace lily	any of various plants of the genus Spathiphyllum having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and...
6	pearly everlasting	an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
7	peony	any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers
8	periwinkle	low trailing plant with small blue or pink flowers
9	petunia	any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers
10	phantom orchid	waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes of white flowers
11	pine lily	lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals
12	pink	any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
13	plume poppy	herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers
14	poppy	annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers
15	prairie aster	violet-flowered perennial aster of central United States having solitary heads
16	prairie orchid	orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white...
17	prairie rocket	any of several western American plants of the genus Cheiranthus having large yellow flowers
18	prairie sunflower	similar to the common sunflower with slender usually branching stems common in central United States
19	prickly poppy	annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
20	primrose	early spring flower with pale yellow petals
21	protea	South African plant with large showy cone-shaped flower heads

Short flowers with P

pink
poppy
peony
pansy

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with P?

This list has 21 flowers starting with P, from well-known ones like pink, poppy, peony to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with P?

Well-known examples are pink, poppy, peony, petunia, peace lily, pansy, periwinkle, primrose.

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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