Flowers That Start With V

7 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 7 flowers that start with V, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

V offers seven flowers, and three of them belong to one close group. Violet, viola and the pansy family are related, so viola and violet often get mixed up. Verbena rounds out the well known names.

The others are more of a stretch for most readers. Veronica is a garden plant, valerian has lobed or dissected leaves, and vanda is a showy orchid with many large blooms. The vanilla orchid is a climber whose pods give vanilla beans, a fact that tends to delight children who did not know where the flavor comes from.

Flowers starting with V: 7
Best known: verbena, viola
Longest name: vanilla orchid

All flowers that start with V

#	Name	What it is
1	valerian	a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers
2	vanda	any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes
3	vanilla orchid	a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans
4	verbena	any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously...
5	veronica	any plant of the genus Veronica
6	viola	small garden flower related to pansies and violets
7	violet	small plant with purple, blue or white flowers

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with V?

This list has 7 flowers starting with V, from well-known ones like verbena, viola, violet to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with V?

Well-known examples are verbena, viola, violet.

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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