Flowers plants and their meaning at weddings

Selecting flowers is not just about what looks pretty to you.  Flowers have a meaning.  All of them do!  Isn’t it hard to believe that someone actually took the time to make up the different meanings?  It’s amazing to me at least.   For instance, did you know that a calla lily means, "magnificent beauty" and   the fringed gentian means, "I look to heaven?"  Add them together and I think you get the picture. 

You can create a very special meaning behind the flowers and plants you pick. You can even clue your wedding guests in on the meaning behind your flowers on the back of your wedding program.

Take a look at some of the most popular flowers and what they mean. Put a check by the ones who you like the meaning for and ask your florist to let you see them.

FLOWERS/PLANTS & MEANING

1ABUTILON Meditation
2ACACIA (Rose or white) Elegance, friendship
3ACACIA (yellow) Secret love
4ACANTHUS Artifice, fine arts
5ACHILLEA War
6ACONITE Lustre, misanthropy
7ADDER'S-TONGUE Jealousy
8ADONIS Sad memories
9AGRIMONY Gratitude
10ALLSPICE Compassion
11ALMOND (common) Indiscretion, perfidy
12ALOE grief, misplaced devotion, religious superstition
13ASTOREMERIA Devotion
14ALTHEA Consumed by love
15ALYSSYM (sweet) Excellence
16AMARANTH (coxcomb) Affectation, pretension
17AMARANTH (globe) Constant, unchangeable
18AMARANTH Foppery, immortality, pretension
19AMARYLLIS Beautiful, timid, proud
20AMBROSIA Love returned
21ANEMONE Fading hope
22ANGELICA Inspiration, magic
23APOCYNUM Falsehood, figment, I doubt you
24APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference
25ARBOR-VITAE (American) immortality
26ARBOR-VITAE I never change, live for me
27ARBUTUS You only do I love
28ASCLEPIAS Sorrowful remembrance
29ASH Prudence With me you are safe
30ASMINE (night-blooming) Love's vigil
31ASPEN Excess of sensibility, fear
32ASTER (China) Afterthoughts, love of variety
33AURICULA (scarlet) Pride
34AURICULA Painting, wealth is not always happiness
35AZALEA Your blush has won me
36BACHELOR'S BUTTON Devotion, hope, love
37BALM Social intercourse, sympathy
38BALSAM Impatience
39BAY-LEAF I change but in death
40BABY'S BREATH Pure of heart
41BAYBERRY Discipline
42BEGONIA Deformity
43BELLFLOWER Constant
44BETONY Surprise
45BITTERSWEET Platonic love
46BLUEBELL Constant
47BLUEBOTTLE Delicacy
48BLUETS Contentment
49BORAGE Talent
50BRAMBLE Holiness
51BROOM Humility
52BRYONY Prosperity
53BURDOCK Importunity
54BUTTERCUP Riches
55BUTTERFLY-WEED Let me go
56CACTUS Grandeur, warmth
57CALLA LILY Magnificent beauty
58CALYCANTHUS Benevolence
59CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending excellence
60CAMELLIA (White) Perfected loveliness
61CHAMOMILE Energy in adversity
62CANDYTUFT Indifference
63CANTERBURY BELLS Gratitude
64CARDINAL-FLOWER Distinction
65CARNATION Fidelity, love
66CARNATION PINK Woman's love
67CATALPA Beware of the coquette
68CATCHFLY Unchanging friendship
69CATTLEYA Mature charms
70CEDAR I live but for thee
71CELANDINE Joys to come
72CENTAURY Delicacy
73CEREUS (night-blooming) Transient beauty
74CHERRY-BLOSSOM Spiritual beauty
75CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM Do me justice
76CHICKWEED Rendezvous
77CHICORY Frugality
78CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) Loveliness
79CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) I love
80CHRYSANTHEMUM (white) Truth
81CINERARIA Always delighted
82CISTUS Popular
83CITRON Natured beauty
84CLEMATIS Mental Beauty
85CLIANTHUS -Self-seeking, worldliness
86CLOTBUR Rudeness
87CLOVER (four-leafed) Be mine
88CLOVER (white) Think of me
89CLOVES Dignity
90COLTSFOOT Justice shall be done
91COLUMBINE Folly
92CONVOLVULUS Uncertainty
93CORCHORUS Return quickly
94COREOPSIS Always cheerful
95CORIANDER Hidden worth
96CORN-BLOSSOM Riches
97CORN-COCKLE Peerless and proud
98CORNEL Success crowned you
99CORNFLOWER Delicacy, refinement
100COWSLIP You are my divinity
101COXCOMB Foppery
102CRABAPPLE-BLOSSOM Irritability
103CRANBERRY Cure for heartache
104CREEPING CEREUS Modest genius
105CRESS Power, stability
106CROCUS Mirth
107CROWN IMPERIAL Pride of birth
108CURRANT Your frown will destroy me
109CUSCUTA Meanness
110CYCLAMEN Diffidence
111DAFFODIL Unrequited love, regard
112DAHLIA Forever thine
113DAISY (colored) Beauty
114DAISY (Michaelmas) Farewell
115DAISY (white wild) I will think of it
116DAISY Innocence
117DANDELION Love's oracle
118DAPHNE Fame, glory
119DARNEL Vice
120DEW-PLANT Serenade
121DIOSMA Your simple elegance charms me
122DITTANY OF CRETE (white) Passion
123DOCK Patience
124DODDER OF THYME Baseness
125DOGBANE Falsehood
126DOGROSE Pleasure
127DOGWOOD Forgetfulness, love undiminished by
128EGLANTINE Genius, I wound to heal, poetry, talent
129ELDER Compassion, zealousness
130ENDIVE Frugality
131ESCHSCHOLTZIA Do not refuse me
132EUPATORIUM Delay
133EYEBRIGHT Cheer up
134ENNEL Strength, worthy of praise
135FERN Fascination, magic, sincerity
136FIG Argument, I keep my secret
137FILBERT Reconciliation
138FIR Time
139FLAX I feel your kindness
140FLEUR-DE-LIS Message
141FLOWER-OF-AN-HOUR Delicate beauty
142FLOWERING ALMOND Hope
143FORGET-ME-NOT Constancy, true love
144FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER Be mine
145FOUR-O'CLOCK Timidity
146FOXGLOVE Youth
147FOXTAIL GRASS Sporting
148FUCHSIA Confiding love
149FUMITORY Spleen
150FURZE Love for all occasions
151GARDEN DAISY Share your sentiments
152GARDENIA Refinement
153GENTIAN (closed) Sweet be thy dreams
154GENTIAN (fringed) I look to heaven
155GERANIUM (dark) Melancholy
156GERANIUM (fish) Disappointed expectation
157GERANIUM (horseshoe) Stupidity
158GERANIUM (Ivy) Favour
159GERANIUM (lemon) Unexpected meeting
160GERANIUM (nutmeg) Expected meeting
161GERANIUM (oak) True friendship
162GERANIUM (pencilled) Ingenuity
163GERANIUM (rose) Preference
164GERANIUM (scarlet) Comforting
165GERANIUM (silver leafed) Recall
166GERANIUM (wild) Steadfast piety
167GERANIUM Gentility, peaceful mind
168GILLYFLOWER Bonds of affection
169GLADIOLUS Ready-armed
170GOLDENROD Encouragement
171GOOSEBERRY Anticipation
172GRANDIFLORA High-souled
173GRAPE (wild) Charity, mirth
174GRASS Submission
175HANDFLOWER Warning
176HAREBELL Submission
177HARLEQUIN Laugh at trouble
178HAWKWEED Quick-sighted
179HAWTHORN Hope
180HAZEL Reconciliation
181HEARTSEASE Think of me
182HEATH Solitude
183HELENIUM, Tears
184HELIOTROPE Eagerness, intoxicated with joy
185HELLEBORE Devotion
186HEMLOCK You will cause my death
187HEMP Fate
188HIBISCUS Delicate beauty
189HOLLY  Domestic happiness
190HOLLYHOCK Ambition
191HONEY-FLOWER Love sweet and secret
192HONEYSUCKLE (coral) Fidelity,
193HONEYSUCKLE Bonds of love
194HOP Injustice
195HORNBEAM Ornament
196HORSE-CHESTNUT Luxury
197HOUSELEEK Vivacity
198HOUSTONIA Contentment
199HYACINTH (purple) Jealousy
200HYACINTH (white) Modest loveliness
201HYACINTH Constancy
202HYDRANGEA Boaster
203HYSSOP Cleanliness
204ICE-PLANT Your looks freeze me
205IRIS (German) Aflame
206IRIS Message Eloquence
207IVY Fidelity  Friendship, marriage, wedded love
208JACOB'S-LADDER Come down
209JASMINE (cape) I am too happy
210JASMINE (Carolina) Separation
211JASMINE (Indian) I attach myself to you
212JASMINE (Spanish) Sensuality
213JASMINE (white) Amiability
214JASMINE (yellow) Grace and elegance
215JASMINE I am too happy
216JONQUIL I desire a return of your affection
217JUDAS-TREE Unbelief
218KINGCUP Riches
219LABURNUM Forsaken, pensive beauty
220LADY'S SLIPPER Capricious beauty
221LADY'S SMOCK Ardor
222LADY'S THIMBLE Submission
223LADY'S-TRESSES Bewitching grace
224LANTANA I am unyielding
225LARCH  Boldness
226LAUREL (ground) Perseverance
227LAUREL (mountain) Ambition
228LAUREL Perfidy
229LAURESTINE I die if neglected
230LAVENDER Acknowledgment
231LEMON Discretion
232LETTUCE Cold-hearted
233LICHEN Solitude
234LILAC (purple) First love
235LILAC (white) Youthful innocence
236LILY (water) Purity of heart
237LILY (calla) Maiden modesty, beauty
238LILY (day) Coquetry
239LILY (frog) Disgust
240LILY (tiger) I dare you to love me
241LILY (white) Purity and sweetness
242LILY (yellow) Flirtation
243LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Return of happiness
244LINDEN Conjugal love
245LIVE-OAK Liberty
246LIVERWORT Confidence
247LOBELIA Arrogance
248LOCUST Affection beyond the grave
249LONDON-PRIDE Frivolity
250LOTUS Estranged love
251LOVE-IN-A-MIST Perplexity
252LOVE-LIES Hopeless but not heartless
253LUCERNE Life
254LUPINE (rose) Fanciful
255LUPINE (white) Always happy
256LUPINE Voraciousness
257MAGNOLIA - Nobility
258MISTLETOE - Kiss me
259MOSS - Charity
260MYRTLE - Love
261NARCISSUS Stay as Sweet as You Are
262NASTURTIUM - Conquest, Victory in Battle
263OLEANDER - Caution
264ORANGE BLOSSOM - Eternal Love
265ORCHID - Beautiful Lady
266ORCHID (CATTLEYA) - Mature Charm
267PALM LEAVES - Victory and Success
268PEONY - Happy Life and Marriage
269PETUNIA - Your Presence Sooths Me
270PINE - Hope
271POPPY (GENERAL) - Imagination
272POPPY (RED) - Pleasure
273POPPY (WHITE) - Consolation
274POPPY (YELLOW) - Wealth, Success
275PRIMROSE - I Can't Live Without You
276PRIMROSE (EVENING) - Inconstancy
277ROSE (BRIDAL) - Happy Love
278ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) - Mourning
279ROSE (HIBISCUS) - Delicate Beauty
280ROSE (LEAF) - You May Hope
281ROSE (PINK) - Perfect Happiness
282ROSE (RED) - Love, I Love You
283ROSE (TEA) - I'll Remember Always
284ROSE (THORNLESS) - Love at First Sight
285ROSE (WHITE) - Innocence and Purity
286ROSE (WHITE AND RED MIXED) - Unity
287ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) - Death
288ROSE (YELLOW) - Try to Care
289ROSEBUD - A Heart Innocent of Love
290ROSEBUD (RED) - Pure and Lovely
291ROSEBUD (WHITE) - Girlhood
292ROSEBUD (MOSS) - Confessions of Love
293ROSES (Bouquet of Mature Blooms) - Gratitude
294ROSES (Single Full Bloom) - I Love You
295SMILAX - Loveliness
296SNAPDRAGON - Gracious Lady
297SPIDER FLOWER - Elope with Me
298STEPHANOTIS - Happiness in Marriage
299STOCK - You'll Always Be Beautiful to Me
300SWEETPEA - Thank You for a Lovely Time
301TULIP (GENERAL) - Perfect Lover
302TULIP (RED) - Believe Me
303TULIP (VARIEGATED) - Beautiful Eyes
304TULIP (YELLOW) - There's Sunshine in Your Smile
305VIOLET - Modesty
306VIOLET (BLUE) - I'll Always Be True
307VIOLET (WHITE) - Let's Take a Chance
308ZINNIA (MAGENTA) - Lasting affection
309ZINNIA (MIXED) - Thinking of an absent friend
310ZINNIA (SCARLET) - Constancy
311ZINNIA (WHITE) - Goodness
312ZINNIA (YELLOW) - Daily Remembrance