Flowers That Start With S

34 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 34 flowers that start with S, 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.

S ties for the biggest flower letter on the site, with 34 entries. Sunflower, snapdragon, sweet pea and shasta daisy are the easy wins for young learners. Saffron also appears here as a crocus with purple or white flowers.

Look closely and you will spot clear word families. Sweet names include sweet rocket, sweet alison and sweet sultan. Orchids are plentiful too, such as the swan orchid and spider orchid. A long run of asters closes the list, with odd names like starved aster and stokes' aster. Snow words also repeat, from snowdrop to snow lily.

Flowers starting with S: 34
Best known: sunflower, snapdragon
Longest name: summer snowflake

Best-known flowers that start with S

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

sunflower
snapdragon
snowdrop
shasta daisy
salvia
sweet pea

All flowers that start with S

#	Name	What it is
1	saffron	Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
2	salvia	plant with spikes of small red, blue or purple flowers
3	sea aster	a common European aster that grows in salt marshes
4	sea poppy	yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
5	shasta daisy	hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads...
6	silene	any plant of the genus Silene
7	silver lace	shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down
8	slipper orchid	any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip
9	smooth aster	a variety of aster
10	snapdragon	a garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling the face of a dragon
11	snow lily	dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers
12	snow orchid	waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes of white flowers
13	snowdrop	common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers
14	snowy orchid	slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers
15	southern aster	a variety of aster
16	speedwell	any plant of the genus Veronica
17	spider orchid	Central American orchid having spiderlike flowers with prominent green warts
18	spring beauty	small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink...
19	star tulip	small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped...
20	starved aster	a variety of aster
21	stiff aster	wiry tufted perennial of the eastern United States with stiff erect rough stems, linear leaves and large violet flowers
22	stinking iris	iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa
23	stock	any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
24	stokes' aster	erect perennial of southeastern United States having large heads of usually blue flowers
25	stream orchid	orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish...
26	summer snowflake	common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes
27	sunflower	any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays
28	swamp sunflower	sunflower of eastern North America having narrow leaves and found in bogs
29	swan orchid	any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan
30	sweet alison	perennial European plant having clusters of small fragrant usually white flowers; widely grown in gardens
31	sweet pea	climbing plant with fragrant butterfly-shaped flowers
32	sweet rocket	long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening
33	sweet sultan	perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers
34	sword lily	any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves...

Short flowers with S

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Questions people ask

How many flowers start with S?

This list has 34 flowers starting with S, from well-known ones like sunflower, snapdragon, snowdrop to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with S?

Well-known examples are sunflower, snapdragon, snowdrop, shasta daisy, salvia, sweet pea.

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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