1. Crepe Jasmine
Botanical Name: Tabernaemontana divaricata
The plant has flowers in a pin-wheel shape. Crape Jasmine is one of the most common garden flowers found throughout peninsular India.
2. Arabian Jasmine
Botanical Name: Jasminum sambac
Jasminum sambac is an evergreen vine or shrub. The flowers bloom throughout the year. This plant is grown as an ornamental plant and for its strongly scented flowers.
3. Hibiscus
Botanical Name: Hibiscus
Hibiscus are easy to grow. They grow well in any kind of soil. With their variety of colors and shapes, they make a great addition to your garden. They need bright light for good growth.
4. Night Jasmine
Botanical Name: Cestrum nocturnum
Night jasmine is a hardy climber. The flowers of this plant open at night exuding strong perfume.
It thrives in warm weather and needs bright light. It prefers rich, fertile soils but will tolerate poor ones if it gets enough water. Night queen is easy to grow and care for.
5. Lotus
Botanical Name: Nelumbo nucifera
Lotus is the symbol of purity. This flower can be a focal pointing any garden.
6. Oleander
Botanical Name: Nerium oleander
Oleander comes in different hues of yellow, peach, salmon, pink, and burgundy red. Oleander flowers profusely in spring and summer.
7. Chrysanthemums
Botanical Name: Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum plants need plenty of sunlight to grow well. They come in different colors. Water them regularly, and they add beautiful color and fragrance.
8. Plumeria
Botanical Name: Plumeria
A deciduous shrub or a small tree famous for its fragrant flowers. They are easily propagated by stem cuttings. It is grown for its ornamental value.
9. Butterfly pea plant
Botanical Name: Clitoria ternatea
Blue Butterfly Pea belongs to the leguminous plant family Fabaceae. It has a creamy white-colored center. Butterfly pea flower is a common ingredient in many herbal teas.
10. Marigold
Botanical Name: Tagetes erecta
Marigolds are beautiful flowers that come in various colors. They are also known to have medicinal properties. What makes them unique is their ability to attract pollinators, such as bees.
11. Dahlia
Botanical Name: Dahlia
Dahlias are popular herbaceous perennial plants. They come in a vivid range of colors and shapes. They are the most loved garden plants, as well as cut flowers.
12. Fox Brush Orchid
Botanical name: Aerides maculosa
Fox Brush Orchid is a dwarf orchid species. These flowers are fragrant and colorful, making great house plants and garden flowers. They have pendulous inflorescence.
13. Tuberose
Botanical Name: Polianthes tuberosa
Tuberose is a perennial plant with pure white waxy tubular flowers. Flowers emit a strong fragrance and are used in perfumery.
14. Parijata
Botanical Name: Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
Parijata is a short tree, and its flowers are fragrant and blooms at night. The tree is sometimes called the "tree of sorrow", because the flowers lose their brightness during daytime.
15. Brahmakamala
Botanical Name: Epiphyllum oxypetalum
The plant is also called the queen of the night. The white flowers have a rich, floral scent.
16. Gardenia
Botanical Name: Gardenia augusta
This tropical plant has beautiful glossy green foliage and produces large white flowers that emit a strong smell while blooming.
17. Four'O Clock
Botanical Name: Mirabilis jalapa
Four'O Clock is an ornamental perennial plant. Four o’clock flowers grow and bloom abundantly in the summer. The colorful trumpet-like flowers bloom in the late afternoon or early evening.
18. Common jasmine
Botanical name: Jasminum officinale
It is also known as summer jasmine, poet's jasmine, white jasmine, and true jasmine. Common jasmine is a semi-evergreen vine.
19. Bread Flower
Botanical name: Vallaris solanacea
It is a climbing shrub. The white flowers have an intense fragrance. This plant can be a great addition to your garden as it attracts many birds and butterflies.
20. White Shankapushpi
Botanical name: Clitoria ternatea
It is a fast-growing, perennial herbaceous climber. These plants have medicinal properties. The beautiful flowers attract butterflies, also.
21. Periwinkle
Botanical Name: Catharanthus roseus
Periwinkle is known to be extremely hardy and is known to thrive even in nutritionally deficient soils. It is widely used as groundcover.
22. Jamaican bluespike
Botanical Name: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
It is a hardy perennial herb. The blue-purplish colored flowers produced in a spike attract a lot of butterflies.
23. Wedelia
Botanical Name: Sphagneticola trilobata
Wedelia is an herbaceous, hardy perennial plant. It spreads aggressively. Wedelia is widely used as groundcover.
24. Cockscomb
Botanical Name: Celosia
Cockscomb is a great, low-maintenance plant that comes in a variety of colors. It grows well even in poor, rocky, and sandy soils.
25. Osbeckia
Botanical Name: Osbeckia
Osbeckia is an annual herb that bears purple-pink flowers. Plant it anywhere, and it grows well.
26. Crotalaria
Botanical Name: Crotalaria retusa
Crotalaria is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as rattlepods. This species is used as an ornamental for its bright yellow flowers.
27. Rangoon Creeper
Botanical Name: Combretum indicum
Rangoon creeper bears reddish flowers. The flowers are fragrant and tubular, varying from white to pink to red. The flowers change in color with age.
28. Peacock flower
Botanical Name: Caesalpinia pulcherrima
The Peacock flower is a striking ornamental plant. It is widely grown in gardens for its red, orange, and yellow flowers. The plant attracts many birds and butterflies, especially hummingbirds.
29. Pagoda flower
Botanical Name: Clerodendrum paniculatum
This species is a perennial herbaceous plant growing from a woody rootstock. The inflorescence consists of one or more large clusters of white-yellowish flowers which bloom between July and September.
30. Globe Amaranth
Botanical Name: Gomphrena globosa
Globe amaranth is plant of the Amaranth family. The globe-shaped flower inflorescences exhibit variety of shades like purple, red, orange, white, and pink.
31. Uttareni
Botanical Name: Stachytarpheta mutabilis
It is a perennial herb. The pink-colored flowers produced in a spike attract a lot of butterflies.
32. Canna
Botanical Name: Canna indica
It is a popular garden plant due to its big showy flowers. They come in a variety of shaped and colors.
33. Butterfly Milkweed
Botanical Name: Asclepias curassavica
Scarlet Milkweed is a short herb with bright red-yellow flowers. Wasps, beetles, and a number of other butterflies visit these flowers to feed on the nectar.
34. Jungle Geranium
Botanical Name: Ixora coccinea
Jungle Geranium is also known as Indian Rose and is widely grown in gardens across India. Its leaves are used to treat various ailments such as fever, cough, cold, stomach ache, skin diseases, etc.
35. Flame lily
Botanical Name: Gloriosa superba
Flame Lilies are native to South Africa and Asia. They are also known as Gloriosa, African Lily, Fire lily, climbing flame lily, or simply glory vine. These plants are very easy to grow and require little maintenance.
36. Spatika
Botanical Name: Barleria
It is known as December Flower as it blooms in December and is normally strung into garlands of flowers for women to wear in their hair.
37. Kanakambra
Botanical Name: Crossandra infundibuliformis
Kanakambaram is also known as the Firecracker Flower after its exploding fruits. The blooms are gorgeous orange in color.
38. White ginger
Botanical Name: Hedychium
It has one of the most beautiful flowers among all the other Gingers. The butterfly-shaped flowers have a fragrance that would make anyone go weak in the knees.
39. Shooting star
Botanical Name: Pseuderanthemum laxiflorum
Commonly grown as an ornamental plant, it also attracts butterflies.
40. Jatropha
Botanical Name:
A shrub that produces beautiful red flowers. The flowers attract many butterflies. The seeds are used in the production of biofuel.
41. Indigo
Botanical Name: Indigofera tinctoria
Indigofera tinctoria, also called true indigo, is a species of plant from the bean family that was one of the original sources of indigo dye.
42. Day king
Botanical Name: Cestrum diurnum
Day King is a tall shrub whose fragrant tubular flowers. It is said that these fruits are poisonous to humans and most other mammals.
43. Balsam
Botanical Name:
Balsam is a small annual plant with red or pink flowers. The stem is translucent with reddish streaks.
44. Butterfly Bush
Botanical Name: Buddleja
The butterfly bush is one of the most popular ornamental shrubs for gardens worldwide. This deciduous plant with yellow-white flowers.
45. Cosmos
Botanical Name: Cosmos
Cosmos are herbaceous plants commonly grown as summer annuals. These plants do not require much care at all. Adding organic content to the soil gives a lot of blooms.
46. Bougainvillea
Botanical Name: Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea is a hardy, drought-tolerant perennial plant. They come in a variety of colors. It's perfect for arbors, fences, or pots.
47. Rain lily
Botanical Name: Zephyranthes
It is a flowering bulb that is grown for its ornamental value.
48. Golden trumpet vine
Botanical Name: Allamanda
This is a flowering climber that looks lovely on a pergola of a roof. It has a woody stem and prefers a surface that it can use as support to fall over.
49. Firecracker plant
Botanical Name: Russelia equisetiformis
Commonly called the firecracker or the coral plant, these slender red and white color flowers attract many sunbirds.
50. Tecoma
Botanical Name: Tecoma stans
Commonly called the firecracker or the coral plant, these slender red and white color flowers attract many sunbirds.
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Flowers that Thrive in Poor Soil
Winter Indoor Flowering Plants
12 months flowering plants in India
Happy Gardening!
Dr. Vandana K.