Flowers That Start With T

12 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 12 flowers that start with T, 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.

T gives a dozen flowers, led by the tulip, a bulb flower almost every child can name. The tiger lily is easy to remember thanks to its reddish orange petals with black spots. Trillium and tuberose are good next steps for curious readers.

Some names here sound playful. Tidy tips is a California annual whose yellow rays have white tips, and treasure flower is a South African perennial. Tansy is an aromatic herb with buttonlike yellow heads. There are also lilies and orchids, like the trout lily and the tulip orchid, which makes T a varied letter.

Flowers starting with T: 12
Best known: tulip, tiger lily
Longest name: treasure flower

Best-known flowers that start with T

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

tulip
tiger lily
trillium
tuberose

All flowers that start with T

#	Name	What it is
1	tall sunflower	very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots
2	tangle orchid	an orchid of the genus Plectorrhiza having tangled roots and long wiry stems bearing lax racemes of small fragrant...
3	tansy	common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate...
4	tidy tips	California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white
5	tiger lily	east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals
6	tongue-flower	orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base
7	treasure flower	decumbent South African perennial with short densely leafy stems and orange flower rays with black eyespots at base
8	trillium	any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single...
9	trout lily	eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors
10	tuberose	plant with tall spikes of very fragrant white flowers
11	tulip	any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower
12	tulip orchid	Mexican epiphytic orchid with glaucous grey-green leaves and lemon- to golden-yellow flowers appearing only partially...

Short flowers with T

tulip
tansy

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with T?

This list has 12 flowers starting with T, from well-known ones like tulip, tiger lily, trillium to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with T?

Well-known examples are tulip, tiger lily, trillium, tuberose.

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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