Flowers That Start With W

16 flowers Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 16 flowers that start with W, 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.

W gives sixteen flowers, and most pair a describing word with a plant word. Water lily, wallflower and wisteria are the classic picks, and wisteria is easy to picture with its long hanging clusters of purple blooms.

Wild places shape a lot of these names. You will find wood lily, wood aster and woodland star, plus three western poppies: the western poppy, the wind poppy and the wood poppy. Wake-robin is another name for a trillium. Winged everlasting is an Australian plant with silvery white blooms, a nice rare answer for quiz rounds.

Flowers starting with W: 16
Best known: wallflower, water lily
Longest name: winged everlasting

Best-known flowers that start with W

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

wallflower
water lily
wisteria

All flowers that start with W

#	Name	What it is
1	wake-robin	any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single...
2	wallflower	any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers
3	water lily	water plant with floating leaves and showy flowers
4	western poppy	showy annual of California with red flowers
5	white daisy	tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
6	white lily	lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers
7	wild pink	a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada
8	willow aster	a variety of aster
9	wind poppy	California wild poppy with bright red flowers
10	winged everlasting	Australian plant widely cultivated for its beautiful silvery-white blooms with bright yellow centers on long winged...
11	wisteria	climbing vine with long hanging clusters of purple flowers
12	wonder flower	South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as...
13	wood aster	any of several asters of eastern North America usually growing in woods
14	wood lily	any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single...
15	wood poppy	perennial herb native to woodland of the eastern United States having yellow flowers
16	woodland star	California perennial herb cultivated for its racemose white flowers with widely spreading petals

Questions people ask

How many flowers start with W?

This list has 16 flowers starting with W, from well-known ones like wallflower, water lily, wisteria to rarer kinds.

What flowers start with W?

Well-known examples are wallflower, water lily, wisteria.

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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