The Language of Flowers

from the Vicorian Era and around the world

Last Updated 11th of August 1998

Find the meaning of a flower (In alphabetical order)

From M - Z Below From A - L Previous Page

L M N
O P Q R S T U
V W X Y Z

M

Madder - Calumny

Magnolia - Love of nature

Swamp - Perseverance: - Perseverance

Mallow - Mildness

Marsh - Beneficence Syrian - Consumed by love, Persuasion Venetian - Delicate Beauty: - Beneficence
Syrian - Consumed by love, Persuasion Venetian - Delicate Beauty: - Consumed by love, Persuasion
Venetian - Delicate Beauty: - Delicate Beauty

Manchineal Tree - Falsehood

Mandrake, Mandrake Root - Horror

Maple - Reserve

Marigold - Grief, despair, pain and anger

African - Vulgar minds East - honour French - Jealousy Prophetic - Prediction West - Despair In the hair -Sorrow of mind In the Cleavage -Boredom Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: - Vulgar minds
East - honour French - Jealousy Prophetic - Prediction West - Despair In the hair -Sorrow of mind In the Cleavage -Boredom Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: - honour
French - Jealousy Prophetic - Prediction West - Despair In the hair -Sorrow of mind In the Cleavage -Boredom Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: - Jealousy
Prophetic - Prediction West - Despair In the hair -Sorrow of mind In the Cleavage -Boredom Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: - Prediction
West - Despair In the hair -Sorrow of mind In the Cleavage -Boredom Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: - Despair
In the hair -Sorrow of mind In the Cleavage -Boredom Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: -Sorrow of mind
In the Cleavage -Boredom Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: -Boredom
Near the Heart - Pangs of Love Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: - Pangs of Love
Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief: -I will soothe your grief

Marjoram - Blushes

Marvel of Peru - Timidity

Meadow Lychnis - Wit

Meadow Saffron - My happiest days are past

Meadowsweet - Uselessness

Mercury - Goodness

Mesembryanthemum - Idleness

Mezereon - Desire to please

Michelmas Daisy - Afterthought, Farewell

Mignionette - Your qualities surpass your charms

Milfoil - War

Milkvetch - Your presence softens my pains

Milkwort - Hermitage

Mimosa - Sensitivity

Mint - Virtue

Mistletoe - Surmount all obstacles, I surmount difficulties

Mock Orange - Counterfeit

Monkshood (Helmet Flower) - Chivalry, Knight-errantry

Moonwort - Forgetfulness

Morning Glory - Affection, Affectation

Moss - Maternal Love

Mosses - Ennui

Mossy Saxifrage - Affection

Motherwort - Concealed Love

Mountain Ash - Prudence

Mourning Bride - Unfortunate attachment, I have lost all

Mouse-eared Chickweed - Ingeneous simplicity

Mouse-eared Scorpion Grass - Forget me not

Moving Plant - Agitation

Mudwort - Tranquility

Mugwort - Happiness

Mulberry Tree

Black - I shall not survive you White - Wisdom: - I shall not survive you
White - Wisdom: - Wisdom

Mushroom - Suspicion

Musk Plant - Weakness

Mustard seed - Indifference

Myrobalan - Privation

Myrrh - Gladness

Myrtle - Love (also used to prevent pregnancy in Germany)

N

Narcissus - Egotism, self esteem (Mixed with honey is supposed to be a painkiller)

Double Blossoms - Female ambitions: - Female ambitions

Nasturtium - Patriotism

Nemophila - I forgive you

Nettle - I am offended

Burning - Slander Tree - Concert Night-blooming Cereus - Transient Beauty Night Convolvulus - Night Nightshade - Truth, Falsehood (This one's a little confusing isn't it?) O Oak Leaves - Bravery Tree - Hospitality White - Independence Oats - The witching soul of music Oleander - Beware Olive branch- Peace Orange Blossom - You're as pure as you are lovely, chastity, everlasting love, bridal festivities Orange Flower - Chastity, Bridal Festivities Orange Tree - Generosity P Palm - Victory Pansy - Thoughts, love, courtship Parsley - Festivity Pasque Flower - You have no claims Passion Flower - Religious superstition Pea, Everlasting - An appointed meeting, Lasting pleasure Pea, Sweet - Departure, Delicate pleasures Peach - Your qualities, like your charms, are unequalled Blossom - I am your captive Pear - Affection Blossom - Give me some hope Tree - Comfort Pelargonium - Eagerness Pennyroyal - Flee away Penstemon - Unallowed pleasure Peony - Shame, Bashfulness Pepper - Send me an answer Peppermint - Warmth of feeling Periwinkle Blue - Early Friendship White - Pleasures of Memory Periscaria - Restoration Persimmon - Bury me amid nature's beauties Peruvian Heliotrope - Devotion Petunia - Never Despairing Pheasant's Eye - Rememberance Philox, Phlox - Unanimity Pigeon Berry - Indifference Pimpernel - Change, assignation Pine - Pity Pitch - Philosophy Spruce - Hope in adversity Pine-apple - You are perfect Pink - Boldness Carnation - Woman's love Double Indian - Always lovely Double Red - Pure and ardent love Mountain - aspiring Single Indian - Aversion Single Red - Pure Love Variegated - Refusal White - Ingeniousness, talent Plane Tree - Genius Plum Indian - Privation Tree - Fidelity Tree, Wild - Independence Polyanthus - Pride of riches Crimson - The heart's mystery Lilac - Confidence Pomegranate - Foolishness Flower - Mature Elegance Poplar Black - Courage White - Time Poppy - Fading pleasures, Death Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief Oriental - Silence Red -Consolation Scarlet -Fantastic extravagence White -Sleep helps everything, Sleep. My bane. My anitidote Potato - Benevolence Prickly Pear - Satire Pride of China - Dissension Primrose - Early youth or sadness Evening - Inconstancy Red - Unpatronised Merit Primula - Diffidence Privet - Prohibition Purple Clover - Provident Pyrethrum - I am not changed Pyrus Japonica - Fairies' fire Q Quaking Grass - Agitation Quamoclit - Busybody Queen's Rocket - You are the queen of coquettes. Fashion Quince - Temptation R Ragged Robin - Wit Ranunculus - You are radiant with charms Garden - You are rich in attractions Wild - Ingratitude Raspberry - Remorse Ray Grass - Vice Red Catchfly - Youthful Love Reed, Split - Indiscretion Reeds (with their panicles), Bundle of - Complaisance, Music Rhododendron, Rosebay - Danger is near, Beware Rhubarb - advice Rocket - Rivalry Rose - Love and Beauty, May you be pleased and your sorrow mine Austrian - Thou art all that is lovely Bridal -Happy Love Burgundy -Unconscious beauty Cabbage -Ambassador of Love Campion - Only deserve my love Carolina -Love is dangerous China - Beauty always new Christmas - Relieve my anxiety Crown of - Reward of virtue Daily - Thy smile I aspire to Damask -Brilliant complexion, freshness Deep Red -Bashful shame Dog - Pleasure and Pain Full Blown (placed over two buds) - secrecy Full Red -Beauty Full White -I am worthy of you Garland of - Reward of virtue Guelder - Winter, Age Hundred Leaved - Dignity of mind, Pride Japan - Beauty is your only attraction Maiden Blush - If you love me, you will find it out Multiflora - Grace Mundi - Variety Musk -Capricious beauty (Cluster)- Charming Pale Yellow -Decrease of love Red - Love Rock - Popular Favour Single - Simplicity Thornless - Early attachment Unique - Call me not beautiful White -Silence, secrecy, I am worthy of you White, bud of - Heart ignorant of love White, withered Transient impressions Yellow -Jealousy, unfaithfulness, decrease of love York and Lancaster - War Red and White Together -Unity A Rosebud with leaves and thorns - I fear you're never going to love me, but I still have hope. Returned upside down - You must neither fear nor hope. Stripped of thorns - There is everything to hope for. Stripped of Leaves - Your fears are correct. Rosebay Rhododendron - Beware, Danger Rosebud Moss - Confession of Love Red - Pure and lovely White - Girlhood Rosemary - Memory, Rememberance Rudbeckia - Justice Rue - Disdain Rush - Docility Rye Grass - Changeable disposition S Saffron - Beware of excess Crocus - Mirth Meadow - My happiest days are past Sage - Domestic virtue Garden - Esteem Sainfoin - Agitation Saint John's Wort - Animosity, Superstition Salvia blue - I think of you red - Forever thine Sardony - Irony Saxifrage, Mossy - Affection, Frivolity Scabiosa - Unfortunate Love Sweet - Widowhood: - Slander
Tree - Concert Night-blooming Cereus - Transient Beauty Night Convolvulus - Night Nightshade - Truth, Falsehood (This one's a little confusing isn't it?) O Oak Leaves - Bravery Tree - Hospitality White - Independence Oats - The witching soul of music Oleander - Beware Olive branch- Peace Orange Blossom - You're as pure as you are lovely, chastity, everlasting love, bridal festivities Orange Flower - Chastity, Bridal Festivities Orange Tree - Generosity P Palm - Victory Pansy - Thoughts, love, courtship Parsley - Festivity Pasque Flower - You have no claims Passion Flower - Religious superstition Pea, Everlasting - An appointed meeting, Lasting pleasure Pea, Sweet - Departure, Delicate pleasures Peach - Your qualities, like your charms, are unequalled Blossom - I am your captive Pear - Affection Blossom - Give me some hope Tree - Comfort Pelargonium - Eagerness Pennyroyal - Flee away Penstemon - Unallowed pleasure Peony - Shame, Bashfulness Pepper - Send me an answer Peppermint - Warmth of feeling Periwinkle Blue - Early Friendship White - Pleasures of Memory Periscaria - Restoration Persimmon - Bury me amid nature's beauties Peruvian Heliotrope - Devotion Petunia - Never Despairing Pheasant's Eye - Rememberance Philox, Phlox - Unanimity Pigeon Berry - Indifference Pimpernel - Change, assignation Pine - Pity Pitch - Philosophy Spruce - Hope in adversity Pine-apple - You are perfect Pink - Boldness Carnation - Woman's love Double Indian - Always lovely Double Red - Pure and ardent love Mountain - aspiring Single Indian - Aversion Single Red - Pure Love Variegated - Refusal White - Ingeniousness, talent Plane Tree - Genius Plum Indian - Privation Tree - Fidelity Tree, Wild - Independence Polyanthus - Pride of riches Crimson - The heart's mystery Lilac - Confidence Pomegranate - Foolishness Flower - Mature Elegance Poplar Black - Courage White - Time Poppy - Fading pleasures, Death Marigolds and Poppies together -I will soothe your grief Oriental - Silence Red -Consolation Scarlet -Fantastic extravagence White -Sleep helps everything, Sleep. My bane. My anitidote Potato - Benevolence Prickly Pear - Satire Pride of China - Dissension Primrose - Early youth or sadness Evening - Inconstancy Red - Unpatronised Merit Primula - Diffidence Privet - Prohibition Purple Clover - Provident Pyrethrum - I am not changed Pyrus Japonica - Fairies' fire Q Quaking Grass - Agitation Quamoclit - Busybody Queen's Rocket - You are the queen of coquettes. Fashion Quince - Temptation R Ragged Robin - Wit Ranunculus - You are radiant with charms Garden - You are rich in attractions Wild - Ingratitude Raspberry - Remorse Ray Grass - Vice Red Catchfly - Youthful Love Reed, Split - Indiscretion Reeds (with their panicles), Bundle of - Complaisance, Music Rhododendron, Rosebay - Danger is near, Beware Rhubarb - advice Rocket - Rivalry Rose - Love and Beauty, May you be pleased and your sorrow mine Austrian - Thou art all that is lovely Bridal -Happy Love Burgundy -Unconscious beauty Cabbage -Ambassador of Love Campion - Only deserve my love Carolina -Love is dangerous China - Beauty always new Christmas - Relieve my anxiety Crown of - Reward of virtue Daily - Thy smile I aspire to Damask -Brilliant complexion, freshness Deep Red -Bashful shame Dog - Pleasure and Pain Full Blown (placed over two buds) - secrecy Full Red -Beauty Full White -I am worthy of you Garland of - Reward of virtue Guelder - Winter, Age Hundred Leaved - Dignity of mind, Pride Japan - Beauty is your only attraction Maiden Blush - If you love me, you will find it out Multiflora - Grace Mundi - Variety Musk -Capricious beauty (Cluster)- Charming Pale Yellow -Decrease of love Red - Love Rock - Popular Favour Single - Simplicity Thornless - Early attachment Unique - Call me not beautiful White -Silence, secrecy, I am worthy of you White, bud of - Heart ignorant of love White, withered Transient impressions Yellow -Jealousy, unfaithfulness, decrease of love York and Lancaster - War Red and White Together -Unity A Rosebud with leaves and thorns - I fear you're never going to love me, but I still have hope. Returned upside down - You must neither fear nor hope. Stripped of thorns - There is everything to hope for. Stripped of Leaves - Your fears are correct. Rosebay Rhododendron - Beware, Danger Rosebud Moss - Confession of Love Red - Pure and lovely White - Girlhood Rosemary - Memory, Rememberance Rudbeckia - Justice Rue - Disdain Rush - Docility Rye Grass - Changeable disposition S Saffron - Beware of excess Crocus - Mirth Meadow - My happiest days are past Sage - Domestic virtue Garden - Esteem Sainfoin - Agitation Saint John's Wort - Animosity, Superstition Salvia blue - I think of you red - Forever thine Sardony - Irony Saxifrage, Mossy - Affection, Frivolity Scabiosa - Unfortunate Love Sweet - Widowhood: - Concert
Night-blooming Cereus - Transient Beauty
Night Convolvulus - Night
Nightshade - Truth, Falsehood (This one's a little confusing isn't it?)

O
Oak
Leaves
- Bravery

Tree
- Hospitality

White
- Independence

Oats - The witching soul of music
Oleander - Beware
Olive branch- Peace
Orange Blossom - You're as pure as you are lovely, chastity, everlasting love, bridal festivities
Orange Flower - Chastity, Bridal Festivities
Orange Tree - Generosity

P
Palm - Victory
Pansy - Thoughts, love, courtship
Parsley - Festivity
Pasque Flower - You have no claims
Passion Flower - Religious superstition
Pea, Everlasting - An appointed meeting, Lasting pleasure
Pea, Sweet - Departure, Delicate pleasures
Peach - Your qualities, like your charms, are unequalled
Blossom
- I am your captive

Pear - Affection
Blossom
- Give me some hope
Tree
- Comfort

Pelargonium - Eagerness
Pennyroyal - Flee away
Penstemon - Unallowed pleasure
Peony - Shame, Bashfulness
Pepper - Send me an answer

Peppermint - Warmth of feeling
Periwinkle
Blue
- Early Friendship

White
- Pleasures of Memory

Periscaria - Restoration
Persimmon - Bury me amid nature's beauties
Peruvian Heliotrope - Devotion
Petunia - Never Despairing
Pheasant's Eye - Rememberance
Philox, Phlox - Unanimity
Pigeon Berry - Indifference
Pimpernel - Change, assignation
Pine - Pity
Pitch
- Philosophy

Spruce
- Hope in adversity

Pine-apple - You are perfect
Pink - Boldness
Carnation
- Woman's love

Double Indian
- Always lovely

Double Red
- Pure and ardent love

Mountain
- aspiring
Single Indian
- Aversion
Single Red
- Pure Love

Variegated
- Refusal

White
- Ingeniousness, talent

Plane Tree - Genius
Plum
Indian
- Privation
Tree
- Fidelity

Tree, Wild
- Independence

Polyanthus - Pride of riches
Crimson
- The heart's mystery
Lilac
- Confidence

Pomegranate - Foolishness
Flower
- Mature Elegance

Poplar
Black
- Courage
White
- Time

Poppy - Fading pleasures, Death

Marigolds and Poppies together
-I will soothe your grief

Oriental
- Silence
Red
-Consolation

Scarlet
-Fantastic extravagence

White
-Sleep helps everything, Sleep. My bane. My anitidote
Potato - Benevolence
Prickly Pear - Satire
Pride of China - Dissension
Primrose - Early youth or sadness
Evening
- Inconstancy
Red
- Unpatronised Merit

Primula - Diffidence
Privet - Prohibition
Purple Clover - Provident
Pyrethrum - I am not changed
Pyrus Japonica - Fairies' fire

Q
Quaking Grass - Agitation
Quamoclit - Busybody
Queen's Rocket - You are the queen of coquettes. Fashion
Quince - Temptation

R
Ragged Robin - Wit
Ranunculus - You are radiant with charms
Garden
- You are rich in attractions
Wild
- Ingratitude

Raspberry - Remorse
Ray Grass - Vice
Red Catchfly - Youthful Love
Reed, Split - Indiscretion
Reeds (with their panicles), Bundle of - Complaisance, Music
Rhododendron, Rosebay - Danger is near, Beware
Rhubarb - advice
Rocket - Rivalry
Rose - Love and Beauty, May you be pleased and your sorrow mine

Austrian
- Thou art all that is lovely

Bridal
-Happy Love

Burgundy
-Unconscious beauty

Cabbage
-Ambassador of Love

Campion
- Only deserve my love

Carolina
-Love is dangerous

China
- Beauty always new

Christmas
- Relieve my anxiety

Crown of
- Reward of virtue

Daily
- Thy smile I aspire to

Damask
-Brilliant complexion, freshness

Deep Red
-Bashful shame

Dog
- Pleasure and Pain

Full Blown (placed over two buds)
- secrecy

Full Red
-Beauty

Full White
-I am worthy of you

Garland of
- Reward of virtue

Guelder
- Winter, Age

Hundred Leaved
- Dignity of mind, Pride

Japan
- Beauty is your only attraction

Maiden Blush
- If you love me, you will find it out

Multiflora
- Grace

Mundi
- Variety

Musk
-Capricious beauty
(Cluster)- Charming

Pale Yellow
-Decrease of love

Red
- Love

Rock
- Popular Favour

Single
- Simplicity

Thornless
- Early attachment

Unique
- Call me not beautiful

White
-Silence, secrecy, I am worthy of you

White, bud of
- Heart ignorant of love

White, withered
Transient impressions

Yellow
-Jealousy, unfaithfulness, decrease of love

York and Lancaster
- War

Red and White Together
-Unity

A Rosebud with leaves and thorns
- I fear you're never going to love me, but I still have hope.
Returned upside down
- You must neither fear nor hope.
Stripped of thorns
- There is everything to hope for.
Stripped of Leaves
- Your fears are correct.

Rosebay Rhododendron - Beware, Danger
Rosebud
Moss
- Confession of Love
Red
- Pure and lovely

White
- Girlhood

Rosemary - Memory, Rememberance
Rudbeckia - Justice
Rue - Disdain
Rush - Docility
Rye Grass - Changeable disposition

S
Saffron - Beware of excess
Crocus
- Mirth
Meadow
- My happiest days are past
Sage - Domestic virtue
Garden
- Esteem

Sainfoin - Agitation
Saint John's Wort - Animosity, Superstition
Salvia
blue
- I think of you

red
- Forever thine

Sardony - Irony
Saxifrage, Mossy - Affection, Frivolity
Scabiosa - Unfortunate Love
Sweet
- Widowhood