Flowers That Start With B

Here are the different types of flowers with names that begin with the letter B. With an emphasis on common and easy to grow varieties.

Baby’s Breath

Also known as (Gypsophila). Baby’s Breath blooms in the summer. Usually, they produce tiny, five-petaled, white, or pink flowers.

Bachelor’s Button

Also known as Cornflower. They are often used as an ingredient in some tea blends and herbal teas and are famous in the Lady Grey blend of Twinings. Bachelor’s Button produces beautiful blue flowers.

Balloon Flower

Also known as Chinese bellflower or platycodon. This compact herbaceous perennial with bell-shaped, flaring, violet-blue flowers, is very popular among gardeners.

Bee Balm Flower

Other names include horsemint, oswego tea, and bergamot, the latter inspired by the fragrance of the leaves, which is reminiscent of bergamot orange. The Bee Balm Flower (Monarda). prefers moist but well-drained soils.

Begonia

The most common are Begonia semperflorens varieties, also called wax, annual, or bedding begonias. These begonias bloom colorful mounds of red flowers. 

Bellflower

Bellflowers grow in a wide array of shapes that include the common upright, bell-shaped flower, the cup flower, bowl flower, tubular flower, and the star-shaped flower. This variety blooms purple flowers.

Bergenia

The beautiful pink flowers of the Bergenia are also known as pigsqueak for the sound it makes when two leaves are rubbed together.

Black-Eyed Susan

Blanket Flower

Full sun and very well-drained soil are musts for blanket flowers to thrive. They are native to North and South America.

Blazing Star

The leaves of the blazing star are linear, alternate, and get smaller as they go up the stem.

Bleeding Heart

The cultivar termed ‘Alba’ produces white flowers and is commonly known as the white bleeding heart. However, the most common varieties are those that produce pink flowers as seen below.

Bluebell

Bees can ‘steal’ nectar from bluebells by biting a hole in the bottom of the bell, taking the nectar without pollinating the flower. 

Blue-Eyed Grass

Several species of blue-eyed grasses in the eastern United States are threatened or endangered. 

Blue Star Flower

Bouvardia

Bouvardia ternifolia, the firecracker bush, is a shrub widespread across much of Mexico, the range extending south into Honduras and north into the southwestern United States. 

Buddleja

Buddleja davidii, also called summer lilac, butterfly-bush, or orange eye, is a species of flowering plant native to Sichuan and Hubei provinces in central China, and also Japan. It is widely used as an ornamental plant. Butterfly bush is most vigorous in well-drained soil and full sun.

Bush Morning Glory

Ipomoea leptophylla, the bush morning glory, bush moonflower or manroot are all names that this flower goes by.

Buttercup

The name buttercup may derive from a false belief that the plants give butter its characteristic yellow hue (in fact it is poisonous to cows and other livestock). They do, however, produce beautiful butter-yellow flowers.

Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila menziesii)

Nemophila menziesii, known commonly as baby blue eyes or baby’s-blue-eyes, is an annual herb, native to western North America.

Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila paniculata “Bristol Fairy”)

The baby’s-breath most commonly used in flower arrangements such as bouquets is the common gypsophila, G. paniculata. 

Ball Cactus (Parodia Magnifica)

Parodia magnifica is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family that bears pale yellow flowers in summer.

Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus “Astra Blue”)

Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)

Banana Shrub

Basket of Gold (Aurinia saxatilis “Gold Dust”)

Basket of Gold (Aurinia saxatilis)

Bay Laurel

California bay laurels can be found as either small shrubs or tall trees that grow between 20 and 60 feet tall.

Bear’s Breeches (Acanthus “Summer Beauty”)

Bear’s Breeches (Acanthus hungaricus)

Bear’s Breeches (Acanthus mollis)

Acanthus mollis, commonly known as bear’s breeches, sea dock, bearsfoot or oyster plant, is a herbaceous perennial plant that is regarded as an invasive species in some jurisdictions.

Bearded Penstemon

Penstemon barbatus, known by the common names golden-beard penstemon, and beardlip penstemon, is a flowering plant native to the western United States

Beardtongue

Beardtongue (Penstemon canescens)

Known by the common name eastern gray beardtongue, it is a perennial herb producing stems reaching one meter in maximum height. 

Beardtongue

Penstemon digitalis “Husker Red”.

Beardtongue

Penstemon digitalis.

Beaver Tail Cactus

Opuntia basilaris, the beavertail cactus or beavertail pricklypear, is a cactus species found in the southwest United States.