Types of Flowers — an A–Z of flower varieties & names
A public, structured catalog of flower types and varieties for working florists, designers, journalists, students, and curious buyers. Every commercial cut flower with its names, colors, seasonality, vase life, conditioning, symbolism, and substitutes — the data we use inside our studio and academy, opened for the industry.
Entries marked ✦ come from the Acanta master catalogue — the shared database of cut flowers, forms, colours and named varieties that florists and studios build on. The rest are our editorial genus reference. What is Acanta →
Agapanthus blue
Agapanthus white
Allium Giganteum
Allium Mount Everest
Allium Purple Sensation
Nectaroscordum (Sicilian honey garlic)
Alstroemeria Charmelia Rose
Alstroemeria Jubilee
Alstroemeria Noverdi pink
Alstroemeria Virginia
Amaranthus Green Thumb
Amaranthus Hot Biscuits
Preserved amaranthus
Amaryllis Ferrari
Amaryllis Mont Blanc
Amaryllis Rilona
Anemone blue
Anemone Mistral Bicolore
Anemone Mistral Blue
Anemone Mistral Pink
Every entry documents a single commercially cultivated species or cultivar group — the flowers that actually appear in wholesale markets, flower shops, and professional studios. For each flower you'll find its natural peak season by hemisphere, typical vase life in days, the conditioning steps that extend longevity, its role in floral design (filler, focal, texture, line), colour range, price tier relative to market average, and a curated list of substitutes ranked by visual and structural similarity.
The data underpins the tools on this site — the substitute finder, the seasonality calendar, and the map of where flowers grow — and is the same reference our studio and academy use when sourcing and teaching. We review it against wholesale price sheets and agronomic calendars quarterly.
Licensing: the catalog is open for non-commercial use, citation in articles, educational materials, and personal projects. Commercial reproduction — scraped datasets, syndicated pages, AI-training corpora — requires a separate licence. See the full licence terms for details.
