As soon as we hear or read the term flower, the first thing that strikes us is how beautiful and sweet they smell. They are rightly famous for blooming as their presence makes the environment worth it in every situation.
The flowers are not only associated with happiness but also with religious and soulful sentiments. Every flower has some significance, and there are over 400 million species of flowers on this entire planet, some known and some not.
There are uncountable flowers that start with the alphabet ‘H.’ In this article; I will highlight some such flowers.
15 Flowers That Start With The Word H
Hibiscus flowers, also known as rose mallow, have five petals and bright colors, making these flowers recognizable.
Hibiscus are present in different pink, red, white, and purple shades with a slight yellow hue at their petals. These usually blossom in the summer months. These petals are highly effective in preparing tea, famous for their beautiful red color and rich vitamin C content.
There are many species of Hibiscus, such as a white Hibiscus arnottianus in Hawaii, tropical Hibiscus rosa-Sinensis ‘Madonna,’ peach-colored Hibiscus Hirtus, white-colored Hibiscus Lobatus, etc.
One of its species, known as kenaf, is best for papermaking. Dried Hibiscus is edible in garnish for desserts and is most common in Mexico. Also, it has medical uses in Indian Ayurveda. Teas made from it help regulate blood pressure.
Hardy Hibiscus is a non-tropical plant that belongs to the hibiscus family of flowers. You can find it in many parts of the world, for example, the Northern United States, Asia, Australia, Europe, Canada, etc. The plants have a stunning variety of colors ranging from white-pink to deep red and a shade of purples.
To blossom, these need at least 6 hours of sunlight, and they are wetland plants that you should water moderately or as required.
Their growth depends appropriately on the conditions. If the conditions are optimal for them, they will grow incredibly fast. They attract butterflies and thus, look very beautiful to the naked eye.
Heather is an evergreen branching plant. It has beautiful flowers that contain 30 Heather seeds and grow in the wild forests throughout the northern hemisphere of South Africa.
The color of these flowers may range from pink to white or purple, and hybrids as to which color it forms.
Heather has a variety of economic applications. Long trailing shoots are suitable for baskets, while large stems are best for brooms. Further, you can tie the shorter stems into bundles that will serve as brushes. The peat around its roots is a good source of fuel.
There are a hundred different species of the head of flowers, and we grow in clusters. Scottish Highlanders built their homes out of heather and heath stems bonded together with peat mud combined with dry grass or straw. Today, temporary huts are frequently constructed in the same manner and topped with heather.
Heavenly bamboo (Nandina Domestica) is a blooming, evergreen shrub native to eastern Asia despite its widespread name. Nandina Domestica is a beautiful shrub with cane-like stems and finely textured leaves that mimic bamboo leaves, which is how it received its common name. Its botanical name is Berberidaceae.
With leaves that change color from pink to green to red as the seasons change, heavenly bamboo puts on a stunning and changing exhibition of color all year. Dainty white blooms bloom in the spring, followed by vivid red berries throughout winter.
Plant or transplant this lovely, low-maintenance plant in your garden during the cooler fall months. It grows roughly 1 to 2 feet per year until it reaches maturity.
These belong to the species family of Nandina of Berberidaceae, which belongs to Asia in Japan and Southeastern China.
The plant also stays evergreen in Europe and California’s warm and winter climates.
These are leafy plants, and in springtime, they bear flowers. The plant requires rich, moist, and well-drained soil with a slightly humid atmosphere. However, it is worth noting that the soil should have an alkaline pH for the plant to have sustainable growth.
The Hebe plant belongs to New Zealand and South America. These bear flowers range from purple to white or yellow and often contrast with red and brown markings, making them look even more beautiful.
The leaves of the hebe plant grow in four perpendicular rows in opposite decussate pairs. The blooms are flawless, with four slightly uneven lobes on the corolla, two stamens, and a long style. A spike inflorescence holds the flowers. Hebe species are challenging to identify when they are not blooming.
These flowers have two stamens and a long style. They grow in temperate climates as evergreen shrubs. Moreover, they can also develop during mid-summer to mid-autumn.
The lovely flowers of Helenium appear best when planted in spring and autumn. It is available during April & May in the United Kingdom and the United States during September & October.
Heleniums are disease-resistant and pest-resistant. They make beautiful cut flowers as well.
And guess what? Even deers and rabbits tend to avoid them. However, small insects like bees, butterflies, and other creatures get quickly drawn to the blooms.
Heleniums make a great complement to both formal and informal perennial borders and naturalized plants.
You can grow it indoors and outdoors. Heleniums prefer damp soil, so they show up in rain gardens. The flowers are a vital source of late-season pollen and nectar, so they’re a must-have for butterfly gardens.
These are daisy-like flowers whose petals range from yellow to orange or red depending on the variety grown in their color appearances.
They like moderate to heavy moisture environments for their growth. However, they can tolerate hot summers if you cater to the plant’s moisture needs.
Since the Victorian era, heliotrope, often known as the cherry pie plant, has continued as a popular cottage garden flower. This half-hardy perennial attracts essential pollinators to the landscape with delicate yet beautiful clusters of purple, blue, and white blossoms.
Heliotrope blossoms are famous for their wonderful aroma, like vanilla and fresh-baked pie. That’s how the plant got its name. Heliotrope represents the dedication and eternal love.
These flowers originated in southern Europe, North America, and South Western Asia. The flowers are purple and have five petals. These pretty much admire the climatic conditions of subtropical shrubland areas.
Hellebore or hellebores flowers are beautiful flowering plants having plenty of medicinal use. Its scientific name is Helleborus, and the plant belongs to the family of Ranunculaceae.
The rose-like blossoms develop in early spring around the Christian holiday of Lent, which gives hybrid hellebores their popular name, Lenten rose. From February through May, the blooms remain for several months, while the foliage is evergreen except in the coldest places.
To appreciate the downward-facing blossoms of hellebore, many gardeners prefer to plant them on a slope or in raised flower beds. These grow in temperate climates with shade and moisture during the summer and sun during the winter.
They are pretty baby pink to purple shade range color flowers with five petals at least.
However, note that most of its species are poisonous. Hence, you can avoid the plant and look for other options if you have kids and pets at home.
Hepatica is a woodland plant. It belongs to the Ranunculaceae family of Plantae and is native to Asia, Central Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America.
If Hepatica is your preferred plant indoors, make sure to plant it very early in the fall for the flowers to get available during the spring.
Around seven species of small herbaceous plants of the buttercup family occur in shaded forested areas of the north temperate zone. The local name of these species is liverleaf. The plants are short perennials with three-lobed leaves that stay green throughout the winter.
Purplish, purple, blue, pink, or white blooms bloom early in the spring before the plant’s new leaves grow. Hepatica is initially the best remedy against liver disorders.
It falls in the color range of white, purple, and usually is blue.
The scientific name of High Mallow is Malvaceae. These are beautiful flowers of purple and white shade with big petals and seed-like structures in the middle.
You can find several varieties of High Mallow in the tropicals of Asia. They contain 3-7 shallow lobes, 2-5 cm broad and roundish, and the leaf stem is 2-6 cm or 2-13 cm long. They appear in leaf axils in groups of 2-4.
Pollen is big and pale, with five sepals and petals. When ripe, the seeds or ‘cheeses’ appear brownish-green in color and are about 2.5 mm broad, 5-7 mm in diameter, and shaped like a cheese wheel. Hence, cheese is one of the common names.
It is well famous for its medicinal properties as it is useful for coughs, irritations of the air passages, flux, affections of the kidney and bladder, etc.
As the name suggests, Highbush Blueberry is a North American blueberry from the Ericaceae family. They grow in Woodland swarms and moist areas.
Plant early, mid, and late-season blueberry cultivars to extend the fruit season from June to mid-September. Even though blueberries are self-fertile, planting various varieties that bloom simultaneously will result in larger berries and a higher yield. Experts recommend removing all blossoms when planting and the following year so the shrub can concentrate on root and shoot growth.
In late winter, the third year after planting, you can prune the shrub to eliminate dead wood and keep the shape. They are shrubs with beer grape-sized fruits, known as blueberries, which are very high quality.
You can eat these blueberries in raw, cooked, dried-up, or jelly form.
Further, it would help not to plant tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants near highbush blueberries since the growing requirements are opposite for all of these.
Hollow Root or Corydalis cava are beautiful burgundies or purple-colored flowers that grow in clusters. They grow in open forest areas with alluvial and mixed forests on average soils.
These are primarily known to have originated from Europe.
However, it’s also widespread in central and southeast Europe. The plant can attain a maximum height of 15cm to 30cm. Though the plant is non-toxic, various studies are going around to determine Hollow Root’s medicinal properties.
Hollyhock, also known as Alcea, grows on a variety of soils. They bear flowers from May until July and generate flowers with red stamen.
Though the plant is non-poisonous, the stems and leaves can irritate the skin. There are over 80 species of Alcea or Hollyhock.
They bloom in multiple shades, such as white, red, pink, or yellow. Furthermore, Alcea grows very high in terms of their length, so the best place to plant is a well-draining area with full sun to some partial shade availability.
There are several names for the plant – Lunaria annua and annual honesty. It is native to southwest Asia and the Balkans.
The flower grows in a purple or slightly lilac shade and has silvery gray leaves.
The purple or white fragrant flowers that bloom in the spring and early summer are attractive in and of themselves and pollinating insects.
Annual honesty, also known as the money or silver dollar plant, is the most well-known species, with four-petaled reddish-purple or white flowers that bloom in the summer. These originated from southwest Asia and shoot well in temperate climates.
Honesty plants produce silicles, which are disc or oval-shaped fruits. Between the two halves of these dried capsules is a silvery translucent partition that stays on the plant after the seeds have disseminated.
Lunaria telekiana is a rare plant found only in Albania, Montenegro, and Serbia’s highlands. The species produces spherical fruits with distinct divisions and can be grown as an annual or biennial. The seedpod partitions of perennial honesty are point ovals, and the flowers are pale purple.
As its name, the flower depicts honesty and sincerity. And in witchcraft, these act as purity.
Honeysuckle is an evergreen shrub and climbing plant. These flowers usually appear white to the naked eye though they are not. It is useful for digestive disorders, including pain and swelling of the intestine. Also, it is useful to treat cold infections, swine flu, pneumonia, and other bacterial infections.
Some Honeysuckle varieties are good to have at home as beautiful garden plants because they are aromatic and colorful. Although their nectar is not poisonous, the berries of some of its species, if taken in large quantities, can prove toxic.
While putting my article to an end, I would conclude by emphasizing that flowers have a very important role in our lives, whether it is a happy moment or not, which we are going through at that time.
Surrounding yourself with flowers imparts nothing but positivity, good vibes, and blooming energy. The quality of the flowers above makes it more important for us to plant more and more flowers in our surroundings.
I am sure that by reading this article, you will be able to add some knowledge about flowers to your book.