50 French Flower Names & Practice Videos 🌹

First, let’s see how to translate flower in French.

This free French lesson – like many on French Today’s blog – features audio recordings. Click on the link next to the headphones to hear the French pronunciation.

How Do You Say Flower in French?

The French word for flower is “une fleur“. It’s feminine. In the plural, flowers are “des fleurs” in French.

50 French Flower Names

1. Une anémone – anemone
2. Un azalée – azalea
3. Un arum – calla lily
4. Un aster – aster
5. Un bégonia – begonia
6. Un bleuet – cornflower
7. Un bouton d’or – buttercup
8. La bruyère – heather
9. Une campanule – blue bell
10. Une capucine – nasturtium
11. Un coquelicot – wild poppy
12. Un coucou – cowslip
13. Un crocus – crocus
14. Un chrysanthème – a mum, a chrysanthemum
15. Un dahlia – dahlia
16. Une digitale – foxglove
17. Un freesia – freesia
18. Un gardénia – gardenia
19. Un géranium – geranium
20. Une giroflée – wallflower
21. Un glaïeul – gladiolus
22. Une gueule de loup (un muflier) – snapdragon
23. Un hibiscus – hibiscus
24. Un hortensia – hydrangea
25. Un iris – iris
26. Une jacinthe – hyacinth
27. Le jasmin – jasmine
28. Une jonquille – daffodil
29. La lavande – lavender
30. Le lilas – lilac
31. Un lys – lily
32. Une marguerite – daisy
33. Le muguet – lily of the valley
34. Un myosotis – forget-me-not
35. Un narcisse – narcissus
36. Un oeillet – carnation
37. Une orchidée – orchid
38. Une pâquerette – tiny wild daisy
39. Un pavot – (large) poppy
40. Une pivoine – peony
41. Une pensée – pansy
42. Une pervenche – periwinkle
43. Un perce-neige – snowdrop
44. Une primevère – primrose
45. Une renoncule – ranunculus (buttercup)
46. Une rose – rose
47. Une rose trémière – hollyhock
48. Un souci – marigold
49. Un tournesol – sunflower
50. Une tulipe – tulip
51. Une violette – violet
52. Un zinnia – zinnia

Looking for a longer list? Why don’t you help me by suggesting names of flowers – in French (with article) and English please – in the Disqus section below and I’ll add them to the list!

What about names flowering trees in French such as wisteria? Click for another article.

Now let’s see other words related to flowers in French.

French Flower Vocabulary

1. Vivace – perennial
2. Annuel – annual
3. Tardive – late
4. Hâtive/précoce – early
5. Un pétale – a petal
6. La tige – the stem
7. Le pistil – the pistil
8. L’étamine – the stamen
9. La feuille – the leaf
10. Un bulbe – un bulb
11. Une graine – a seed

And finally, let’s study some French verbs useful when talking about flowers in French.

5 French Flower Verbs

1. Cueillir – to pick
2. Pousser – to grow
3. Planter – to plant
4. Fleurir – to bloom
5. Fâner – to wither

4 French Flower video Practice

I really do like flowers, even though unfortunately, I’m oversensitive to many pollens and scents… So it’s mostly flowers outside for me… But in Paimpol, Brittany, where I live, I don’t have a garden 😖 I do however have a tiny patio with many planters!!

Here is a short “live, unscripted” video I shot of the planters on my tiny patio. Sorry, no CC.

Here is another live video I shot at a flower grower. Use the CC option on the bottom right for English or French subtitles.

The region where I live, Brittany, is well-known for its hydrangeas… Subtitles in French and English available.

And another one of gorgeous hydrangea still in bloom in October!

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