Common flower names beginning with S include Sandphox, Scabiosa, Sorrel, and Scilla. Here’s a list of flowers that start with S:
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Saffron
The Autumn Crocus is best known for producing the spice saffron from the filaments that grow inside the flower.
Salvia Splendens
This plant is also called the scarlet sage or tropical sage. It’s a perennial plant that grows at high altitudes in Brazil. In the wild, it grows up to 4 feet tall.
Sand Dollar Cactus
This type of cactus also goes by the names sea urchin cactus, star cactus, and star peyote. The flowers of this cactus are yellow with red bases and the outer parts are very woolly.
Sand Phlox
Phlox bifida, the cleft phlox or sand phlox grows a low, dense mat of blue/purple flowers. The notched flower petals gave rise to the common cleft phlox. The most beautiful of all the S name flowers.
Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus
Not sure which species of hedgehog inspired the name for the Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus, but it produces pink and yellow flowers.
Scarlet Strawberry
The Virginia strawberry, wild strawberry, or common strawberry is one of two species of wild strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern domesticated garden strawberry.
Saponaria
Other common names are common soapwort, bouncing-bet, crow soap, wild sweet William, and soapweed.
Scabiosa
The scabiosa flowers are also known as pincushion flowers. Scabiosa flowers are rich in nectar and attract insects including butterflies and moths.
Scaevola
Sometimes called the fairy fan-flower or common fan-flower.
Scarlet Buckeye
Red buckeye produces bright red flowers. It can be grown in all soil textures and is nearly pest-free. Its flowers, which last several weeks in spring, attract hummingbirds and butterflies.
Scented Geranium
Despite the name, scented geraniums are actually members of the Pelargonium genus. And, though they are perennials, they are treated as annuals in most of the western world.
Scilla
Scilla grows in woodlands, subalpine meadows, and seashores. They are bulb-forming perennials. There are roughly 90 species of scilla plants most of which grow in Europe and Africa.
Sea Holly
Other names are the blue eryngo or flat sea holly. These are annual and perennial herbs with hairless and usually spiny leaves.
Sea Thrift
The British threepence coin issued between 1937 and 1952 had a design of thrift on the reverse. This plant bears bright pink flowers. Other common names include known as thrift, sea thrift or sea pink.
Sedum
Sedum occurs throughout the northern hemisphere, often in drier rocky terrain. It’s also known as stonecrop.
Shasta Daisy
Shasta daisies are characterized by a distinct odor that some find unpleasant.
Shooting Star Flower
This plant bears white flowers that sometimes appear to be shooting upwards.
Silene
Silene is also known as catchflies due to their distinct shaped flowers. There are many different species and the flowers are of varying colors.
Showy Milkweed
The showy milkweed is a milky-sapped perennial plant. The flowers grow in loose clusters at the top of the stems and are rose-purple, changing to yellow as the plant ages.
Shrub Rose
Shrub roses are easy growing members of the rose family. They are easier to maintain when compared to the classic rose.
Silky Wormwood
The silky wormwood is best grown in poor to moderately fertile, dry, well-drained soils in full sun. In the summer it produces tiny yellow flowers that appear to be nodding.
Smoke Tree
This plant also goes by the names European smoketree, Eurasian smoketree, smoke tree, smoke bush, Venetian sumach, or dyer’s sumach.
Snow-in-Summer
This herbaceous flowering plant is a member of the carnation family. Snow-in-Summer is usually grown as ground cover. It thrives in full sun.
Snowdrop Windflower
This plant blooms fragile, nodding white flowers early to mid-spring atop radiant dense, green foliage.
Solanum
Solanum comprises a variety of flowering plants like potato, tomato, and eggplant. But there’s also Solanum Jasminum Album which is a variety of the Jasmine flowers.
Solomon’s Seal
The plant is said to possess scars on the rhizome that resemble the ancient Hebrew seal of King Solomon.
Sorrel
It is also called the pink sorrel, pink wood sorrel or windowbox wood sorrel.
Syringa
Syringa is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family. The flowers are fragrant and grow on small trees. They are popular garden plants.
Scarlet Rose Mallow
The leaves of this 4-7 ft. rose-mallow are shiny and of a deep-scarlet color. They are over 6 in. in width. A large plant with big, showy, crimson flowers in upper leaf axils.
Scotts Clematis
A stunning wildflower, also known as the Sugarbowl Clematis, it blooms with showy deep blue nodding bell-shaped flowers.
Serbian Bellflower
Serbian bellflowers are easy to grow and maintain. The flowers are a lavender-blue color. They are 1-inch in diameter and star-shaped. The foliage remains evergreen in mild winters.
References
- Flower Glossary – View Names & Images of Flowers | Teleflora – https://www.teleflora.com/floral-facts/glossary-of-flowers
- Most Popular Flowers like Rose, Chrysanthemums, Narcissus and more – The Flower Expert – https://www.theflowerexpert.com/content/mostpopularflowers/more-popular-flowers
