Identify the Flower Quiz — 10 Free Questions

Question 1

This is one of the earliest wild flowers of the year, forming a flat rosette of crinkled, tongue-shaped leaves against the ground, from which rise short single stalks, each carrying one pale yellow flower with five notched petals and a deeper yellow eye. It grows on banks, hedgerows and woodland edges.

Question 2

This lawn 'weed' has a bright golden flower-head of many strap-shaped florets on a hollow, leafless stalk that leaks white sap when broken. The head later closes and reopens as a fluffy grey ball of parachute seeds that children blow away. Its jagged-toothed leaves are eaten in salads.

Question 3

This low, sprawling plant of damp ground and stream banks is covered in sprays of tiny, flat, five-petalled sky-blue flowers, each with a small yellow or white eye at the centre. The unopened buds are often pink. It seeds itself everywhere and is a symbol of remembrance and faithful love.

Question 4

This towering cottage-garden plant, often over 2 metres, sends up a single tall spire closely set with large, shallow, funnel-shaped flowers of five silky, crinkled petals in white, pink, red, yellow or near-black, opening in sequence up the stem. It is short-lived and seeds itself along walls and paths.

Question 5

This bedding plant grows spikes of two-lipped, pouch-shaped flowers in many bright colours. Squeeze the sides of one flower and the 'mouth' opens and snaps shut like a jaw, which is where the name comes from. Left to seed, the dried pods look like tiny skulls.

Question 6

This sprawling or climbing annual has round, shield-shaped, slightly waxy leaves on long stalks joined at the centre, and bright orange, yellow or red trumpet-shaped flowers with a long backward spur that holds nectar. Every part has a hot, peppery taste, and the leaves, flowers and green seed pods are all eaten in salads.

Question 7

This small, low, spreading woodland plant has rounded leaves and tiny, deep purple, five-petalled flowers on thin curved stalks, with a sweet perfume that oddly seems to fade and then return as you keep sniffing, because it briefly numbs the nose. It flowers very early, and the petals are candied for cake decoration.

Question 8

This bushy annual bedding plant carries dense, ruffled, pompom flower-heads in hot orange and yellow, above ferny leaves with a strong pungent smell said to keep pests off vegetables. In Mexico it is the 'flower of the dead', heaped on graves and altars for the Day of the Dead.

Question 9

This is the most popular garden and cut flower in the world, with centuries of breeding behind thousands of named varieties. It has layered, spiralling petals, a sweet scent, and a stem set with thorns, and comes in almost every colour except a true blue. It is a worldwide symbol of love.

Question 10

This tall annual grows a single huge flower-head, sometimes 30 cm across, on a thick, hairy stalk that can reach 3 metres. The head is really hundreds of tiny flowers ringed by golden ray florets, and young buds slowly turn to follow the sun across the sky. The centre ripens into edible striped seeds pressed for oil.

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About Identify the Flower

Can you name the flower? Each question shows a photograph of a flower and gives three short, easy sentences about it: what it looks like, where it grows, and how it is used or what it stands for, without ever saying its name. You then pick it from four choices, and the answer tells you more.

The flowers are the ones almost everyone has seen: the garden and florist favourites like the rose, the tulip, the lily, the carnation and the chrysanthemum; the field and lawn flowers such as the poppy, the daisy, the dandelion and the bluebell; and flowers with a strong meaning somewhere in the world, like the lotus, the marigold, the jasmine and the cherry blossom.

Part of the fun is learning to read a flower from a few features. How many petals, and are they separate or joined into a trumpet, a cup or a bell? Is there one flower to a stem or a whole head made of many tiny ones? Does it grow from a bulb, a climbing stem, a shrub or a tree? Is it scented, and does the scent get stronger at night? A handful of clues like these usually narrows it down.

Many of these flowers carry a bigger story. Several are national or royal emblems. One set off what is often called the first stock-market bubble. One covered the battlefields of a world war and is now worn to remember the dead. One is a symbol of purity in three religions, and one, in much of Europe, may only be given at a funeral.

The clues never name the flower or use a word that would give it away at once, so getting the answer means recognising the shape and the description rather than reading a label. Every photograph is a freely licensed image from Wikimedia Commons, chosen from public-domain or Creative Commons sources so there is no copyright question, and every fact has been checked. The wording is kept simple, so the quiz plays the same for a keen gardener and for someone who has never grown anything.