Some common flower names beginning with W include Waterlilly, Watsonia, Wild Lilly, and Wishbone. Here are the different types of flowers that start with W.
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Wallflower
- Common Name: Wallflower
- Scientific Name: Erysimum cheiri
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Dry to medium
- Soil PH: 6.6 to 7.5
- Flower Color: Yellow to orange-yellow to brown
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 7 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 6-24”
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Wandflower
Sparaxis tricolor, known by the common names wandflower, harlequin flower, and sparaxis, colorful flowers which are bi- or tri-colored with a golden center and a small ring of brown surrounded by another color.
- Common Name: Sparaxis tricolor
- Scientific Name: Wandflower
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Low
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: Red, Orange, Yellow, Lavender, White Flowers (all with a bright yellow center with a black outline)
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, easy-to-grow, cut flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 7 to 10
- Height At Maturity: 6″-1′
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Beds & Borders
Water Avens
- Common Name: Water avens
- Scientific Name: Geum rivale
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium to wet
- Soil PH: 6.1-7.8
- Flower Color: Brown-purple calyx and cream to purple-pink petals
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, deer-resistant
- Hardiness Zone(s): 3 to 7
- Height At Maturity: 8-18”
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Waterlily
Waterlilies are free flowering and bloom well in part shade. Each flower lasts several days and close in the evening and night.
- Common Name: Waterlily
- Scientific Name: Nymphaea
- Type: Aquatic Plant
- Water: High
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: White, Pink, Purple, Yellow, Cream
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, Fragrant Flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 3 to 11
- Height At Maturity: 2-4”
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Water Garden/Ponds & Streams
Watsonia
Native to South Africa, Watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s.
- Common Name: Pink Watsonia
- Scientific Name: Watsonia Barbonica
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Average
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: Pink, Red Flower, Orange
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, Fragrant Flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 8 to 10
- Height At Maturity: 3-5′
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Beds & Borders
- Common Name: Wax Plant
- Scientific Name: Apocynaceae
- Type: Vine
- Water: Medium
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: White Flowers
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, Fragrant Flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 10
- Height At Maturity: 2-4′
- Sun: Full sun
Wedelia
- Common Name: Wedelia
- Scientific Name: Wedelia trilobata
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: Yellow Flowers
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, Fragrant Flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 8-11
- Height At Maturity: 18″-2′
- Sun: Full sun, Full shade
Weigela
- Common Name: Weigela
- Scientific Name: Weigela Florida
- Type: Shrub
- Water: Moderate
- Soil PH: 5.6 to 6
- Flower Color: Pink, Rose, Red
- Special Characteristics: Attracts birds and butterflies, Showy Flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 4 to 8
- Height At Maturity: 72″ to 120″
- Sun: Full Sun
- Sub Type: Deciduous
Whipple’s Cholla
The dried fruit of this cactus ground into a flour, mixed with ground cornmeal and made into a mush.
- Common Name: Whipple’s Cholla
- Scientific Name: Cylindropuntia Whipplei
- Type: Cactus/Succulent
- Water: Dry
- Soil PH: 6.6 to 7.8
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Special Characteristics: Tolerates Drought, Container
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 10
- Height At Maturity: 18″ to 48″
- Sun: Full Sun
Whirling Butterflies
- Common Name: Whirling Butterflies
- Scientific Name: Gaura lindheimeri
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Low, Average
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: Pink, White
- Special Characteristics: Cut flowers, showy flowers, deer-resistant, rabbit-resistant, drought-resistant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 2′ to 3′
- Sun: Full Sun
Wild Rose
- Common Name: Wild Rose
- Scientific Name: Rosa blanda
- Type: Shrubs, Roses
- Water: Average
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: Pink, White
- Special Characteristics: fragrant flowers, showy flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 2 to 6
- Height At Maturity: 4′ to 5′
- Sun: Full Sun
Wild Violet
Other common names include common meadow violet, purple violet, the lesbian flower, woolly blue-violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.
- Common Name: Wild Violet
- Scientific Name: Viola sororia
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Average
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: White-Purple
- Special Characteristics: showy flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 3 to 7
- Height At Maturity: 6 to 10″
- Sun: Full Sun, Partial Sun
Willow Bell
The Willow Bell plant has cup-shaped flowers that can be either lilac-blue or white.
- Common Name: Willow bell
- Scientific Name: Campanula persicifolia
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium
- Soil PH: 5.8 – 7.2
- Flower Color: White to blue
- Special Characteristics: Deer-resistant, showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 3 to 7
- Height At Maturity: 18-36′
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Winged Monkey Flower
Mimulus alatus, the sharpwing monkeyflower, or winged monkey flower is native to North America and its blooming season is from June to September.
- Common Name: Winged monkey flower
- Scientific Name: Mimulus alatus
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Tolerates Wet Soil, Needs Moderate Moisture
- Soil PH: 6.2-7.8
- Flower Color: Pale blue, yellow
- Special Characteristics: Attracts birds and butterflies
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 8
- Height At Maturity: 12″ to 36″
- Sun: Partial Shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Wishbone Flower
It is also called the bluewings or Torenia fournieri.
- Common Name: Wishbone flower
- Scientific Name: Torenia Fournieri
- Type: Annual
- Water: Moderate moisture
- Soil PH: 6.0 to 6.5
- Flower Color: yellow, pink, purple, blue and white
- Special Characteristics: Container
- Hardiness Zone(s): 2 to 11
- Height At Maturity: 6″ to 12″
- Sun: Partial Shade to full shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Witch Hazel
The fruit of witch hazel can be yellow, red or orange. The North American species are occasionally called winterbloom.
- Common Name: Witch Hazel
- Scientific Name: Hamamelis
- Type: Shrub
- Water: Moderate
- Soil PH: 4.5 to 6.5
- Flower Color: Yellow, Orange, Red
- Special Characteristics: Fragrant Flower
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 8
- Height At Maturity: 156″ to 192″
- Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade
- Sub Type: Deciduous
Woolly Violet
- Common Name: Wolly Violet
- Scientific Name: Viola sororia
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Average
- Soil PH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Flower Color: White-Purple
- Special Characteristics: showy flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 3 to 7
- Height At Maturity: 6 to 10″
- Sun: Full Sun, Partial Sun
Wax Begonia
- Common Name: Wax Begonia
- Scientific Name: Semperflorens Cultorum Group
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Tolerates drought, Needs Moderate Moisture
- Soil PH: 6 to 8
- Flower Color: White, pink, red, bicolor
- Special Characteristics: Container
- Hardiness Zone(s): 10 to 11
- Height At Maturity: 6″ to 12″
- Sun: Full sun to Partial shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
White Evening Primrose
- Common Name: White evening primrose
- Scientific Name: Oenothera speciosa
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Dry to medium
- Soil PH: 6-8
- Flower Color: White maturing to rosy pink
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 4 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 10-24”
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Read: The Different Types of Primrose.
White Trumpet Pitcher Plant
- Common Name: White trumpet pitcher plant
- Scientific Name: Sarracenia leucophylla
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Wet
- Soil PH: 3-5
- Flower Color: Red
- Special Characteristics: Fragrant, showy flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 6-8
- Height At Maturity: 20” to 36”
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Houseplant
Wild Indigo
- Common Name: Wild indigo
- Scientific Name: Baptisia tinctoria
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Dry to medium
- Soil PH: 6 – 7
- Flower Color: Purple flowers
- Special Characteristics: Attracts butterflies, showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 3 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 24-36′
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Wild Strawberry
- Common Name: Wild strawberry
- Scientific Name: Fragaria vesca
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium
- Soil PH: 6.0 to 6.5
- Flower Color: White with yellow center
- Special Characteristics: Deer-resistant, showy flowers, edible
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 4-8”
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Willow Shrub
- Common Name: Willow Shrub
- Scientific Name: Salix
- Type: Shrub
- Water: Moderate
- Soil PH: 5 to 8
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 7
- Height At Maturity: 48″ to 72″
- Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade
- Sub Type: Deciduous
Willow-leaved Sunflower
- Common Name: Willow-leaved sunflower
- Scientific Name: Helianthus salicifolius
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium
- Soil PH: 5.8 to 6.2
- Flower Color: Yellow rays and dark brown center disks
- Special Characteristics: Attracts birds and butterflies, deer-resistant, showy flowers, cut flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 4 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 5-8′
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Wood Anemone
- Common Name: Wood anemone
- Scientific Name: Anemone nemorosa “Lychette”
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Needs moderate moisture
- Soil PH: 6-8
- Flower Color: White with yellow center stamens
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 8
- Height At Maturity: 6-18″
- Sun: Part shade to full shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Wood Lily
- Common Name: Wood lily
- Scientific Name: Trillium cuneatum
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium
- Soil PH: 4-6.8
- Flower Color: Maroon to yellow to orange to reddish-green
- Special Characteristics: Fragrant, showy flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 8
- Height At Maturity: 12-18′
- Sun: Part shade to full shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
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