Also check Fruit [category], Grain [category], Plants [category], and Trees [category] because I can be arbitrary and/or confused about things that fit in more than one category.
This message brought to you by almonds, amaranth, and lemons.Amaryllis:
Where Amaryllis lies in state - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"
Anemone/Sea Anemone.
Angelica:
Picking river sage and rare angelica - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Arum:
And many an arum lifts her hooded head - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Asphodel.
Aster.
Azalea:
In a pool surrounded by azaleas - Myronn Hardy "Solemnity"
Into a cloud of sudden azaleas - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Rider"
Your life lined up like azaleas - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"
The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Baby's Breath:
An infection of baby's breath in your wake - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
Begonia:
blood dripping on my begonias - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"
at the precipice between gardenias blue and begonias black - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Bloom.
Blossom.
Bluebell.
Bluebonnett:
A music of sagebrush and bluebonnetts - N. Scott Momaday "Death Song"
Bouquet.
Buttercup.
Calendula:
Brought me yellow calendulas - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"
Calla:
The budding calla is bold enough to bloom - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Camellia:
The fumes of pale camellias - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "North and South"
Carnation.
Celandine:
Celandines as heavenly crowns - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"
The sun on the celandines lie redoubled - Edward Thomas "Celandine"
Found the celandines of February - Edward Thomas "Celandine"
Cherry Blossom.
Chocolate Cosmo:
The maroon perfume of the chocolate cosmos - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Chrysanthemum.
Clematis:
The trailing clematis dropped on the sundial - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
Wreathed with starry clematis - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
The sap struggling up unseen in the clematis - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
Clover.
Columbine:
Columbine with horn of honey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"
Cornflower:
Cornflower in the rustling rye - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"
Filigreed ivory and cornflower crystal - Mona Gould "Gift Shop Window"
Cosmo:
The good earth opening into a field of Cosmos - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
The maroon perfume of the chocolate cosmos - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Cowslip.
Crocus.
Cyclamen:
Watching the pink bursts of the cyclamens - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Cyclamens in heaven roots growing among the clouds - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Daffodil.
Dahlia:
Let the majestic dahlia glitter - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
The dahlia rooted in Egyptian sleep - Mary E. Coleridge "Chillingham"
People throng around the dahlias - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Daisy.
Dandelion.
Devil's Paint-Brush:
Where the devil's paint-brush spread - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"
Dianthus:
Dianthus crowned with hint of cinnamon - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Edelweiss:
With Edelweiss upon her breast - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
Eglantine.
Flora/Floral.
Flower.
Forget-Me-Not:
Beside the river grows starry-eyed forget-me-not - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Forget-me-nots bloom unhindered - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Forget-me-nots in the ditch - William Carlos Williams "Primrose"
Forsythia:
Gasoline to the roots of the forsythia - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"
On a field lined with forsythia - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"
Four O'Clock:
A little garden all edged with four-o'clocks - Anna Burnham Bryant "My Garden" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Of four o'clocks now and to come - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"
Foxglove.
Frangipani:
Wreathed Frangipani blossoms for His brow - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
Fuchsia.
Gardenia.
Garland.
Gentian:
Tears on the gentian's eyelids - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Her Cradle"
Encompassed all with gentians blue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
Where gentian flowers make mimic sky - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Geranium.
Gladiolus:
Bending over gladioli in the field - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"
Left the gladioli & zinnias maimed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Like a gladiola, its true flower is invisible - Dean Young "Permitted a Meadow" [Poetry Oct. 2017]
Goldenrod:
Through the yellow plumes of goldenrod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"
Walk across the field of goldenrod and mustard weeds - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Even the redbuds and goldenrod you cultivate - Keith Taylor "Prayers from the Polish Church, Detroit, 1963"
Deer going by fields of goldenrod - William Carlos Williams "To Elsie"
Heartsease:
Starry with delirious heartsease - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
Heath-Bloom:
Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"
Heliotrope:
Sowed a hundred fields with heliotrope - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Fashion a sash of heliotrope - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Heliotropes to drink the sun - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Hellebore:
Hellebore, trumpet vines and heirloom tomatoes - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"
Of black hellebore and rosemary - Francis Brett Young "Prothalamion"
Hibiscus.
Hollyhock.
Honeysuckle.
Hyacinth.
Hydrangea:
Blue hydrangeas by the blistered door - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"
Those hydrangeas that I call forgiveness - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"
Impatiens:
How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time" [impatiens]
Wading through jewelweed strangled by angel's hair - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
The ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"
As the red impatiens wither and brown - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Iris.
Jasmine.
Jessamine:
Out of myrtle and jessamine made - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"
Toxic as the jessamine vine - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
Nine drops of water bead the jessamine - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"
The jessamine music on the thin night air - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Jewelweed [impatiens]:
How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
Wading through jewelweed strangled by angel's hair - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Jonquil:
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"
Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
The glory of jonquils strewn - Louise Imogen Guiney "On Some Old-Music"
Golden jonquils like a star amid the gloom - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Larkspur:
With baskets of larkspur - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen p"
Lamps up through the larkspur evening - Mona Gould "Rain"
Laurel.
Lavender.
Lilac.
Lily.
Lupin/Lupine:
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin - Robinson Jeffers "Carmel Point"
Only a faint path strewn with lupine - Philip Levine "Gospel"
Ripple through the meadow of lupine - David St. John "In the High Country"
Lychnis:
Lychnis in whose cups the bee delights to murmur - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
Magnolia.
Marguerite:
Embroidered in a daisy stitch with marguerites - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"
Marigolds.
Meadowsweet:
In dells of rose and meadowsweet - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Mimosa:
White lights in the mimosa trees - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
The mimosa casts its delicate shadows - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Moonflower:
A human one with moonflowers for eyes - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."
Wreathed with moon-flowers pale - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Lucid as a moon flower - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
The moonflower that no one tends - Kaneko Misuzu "Wonder" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Morning Glory:
Each tingle a bright white morning glory - James Crews "Awe"
Among the harp-like morning-glory strings - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"
Confirmed the morning glory's crown - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Mountain Rose:
Rocks where blooms the mountain rose - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Narcissus.
Nasturtium:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Oleander.
Orchid.
Osmanthus:
Burying melancholy with jasmine and sweet osmanthus - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Pansy:
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"
Glowing rose and pensive pansy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"
Drowsing on some bed of pansies - Don Marquis "Silvia"
Pansies, that laugh in every face - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Pasqueflower:
pasqueflowers open their palms to straight rain - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
Passionflower:
A batch of Picasso's passion flowers - Lou Barrett "Time's Fool"
Dream in ten spikes of passionflower - francine j. harris "i live in detroit"
Passionflowers lit my father's garden - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Peonies.
Periwinkle:
Trails of periwinkle among the brambles - Dorothea Mackellar "The Road to Ronda"
Dream of baboons and periwinkles - Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
Petal.
Petunia:
From this profusion of petunias - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"
And gossip with the petunias - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"
And even the vile petunia smiled - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
Phlox:
When the creeping phlox covers the moon - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"
Brought her by the phlox and marigold - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Where phlox and marigolds dispute for room - Amy Lowell " The Fruit Garden Path"
Between the beds of phlox - Francis Brett Young "The Rain-Bird"
Poinsettia:
These poinsettia meadows of her tides - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
Poppy.
Potato Blossom:
Passing like potato blossoms - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"
Primrose.
Red Clover:
Leaving the riches of the sweet red clover - Howard Glyndon "The Home of the Gentians" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
Mugwort, red clover, firethorn for compost & company - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Rose.
Rose of Sharon:
Knotted as rose of Sharon - Michael Field "Relics"
Sea-Lily:
Robed in red and sea-lilies - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"
Snapdragon:
Into the snap-dragon throat of desire - Mitchell Dawson "Asperities: Teresa"
Snowdrop:
Gentler than a snowdrop - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."
Caught from a snowdrop in earliest spring - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Who bid good-bye at snowdrop time - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"
Speedwell:
The fragile speedwell blue bade us on our journey haste - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
Spider Lily:
From the ashes of red spider lilies - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Spikenard:
Crocus and spikenard blossom - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Squash Flower:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Statice:
No incantation, no rosemary and statice - Amie Whittemore "Spell for the End of Grief" [sea lavender]
Sunflowers.
Sweetbriar:
Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"
Touched by sweetbriar and tangled vetch - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
Sweet-Pea: See
Peas.
Tansy:
The whisper through the tansies run - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"
Our merchandise with tansy bound - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Tea-Rose:
My lady of the tea-rose - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"
Thorn-Blossom:
Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke - D.H. Lawrence "The Enkindled Spring"
Tiger Lily:
The tiger lily's orange fires - Effie Lee Newsome "Pansy"
Trillium:
Bloodroot and wake-robin rest in quiet slumber - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
['Wake-robin' is an alternate name for trillium.]Not to touch the wild trillium - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"
If you lean down to smell a painted trillium - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
No longer interested in the trillium - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
Trumpet Flower:
The trumpet vine that grows up the ginko's trunk - Carl Phillips "Fall Colors"
Who confide in trumpet flowers - Maurya Simon "Angels"
Hellebore, trumpet vines and heirloom tomatoes - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"
Tulip.
Verbena:
Through a bank of verbena & fog - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Violet (color and flower).
Wallflower:
In the wallflower's fragrance dwell - Anne Bronte "Memory"
The golden wall-flower stood like seneschal - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
Water-Flag:
Where water-flags upreared their banners light - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877] [iris]
Waterlily:
Where the waterlilies grow - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
The love-song of white water-lilies singing to the moon - Li Po "Troubled Waters" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Wildflower.
Windflower:
Cold countless quaking windflowers - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"
Where sweet wind-flowers bend before the breeze - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Whose sweet breath is kissed by windflowers - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]
Wisteria.
Witch-Hazel:
Witch hazel going wild along the walkway - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Unless you carve witch hazel in the old style - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"
Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Wild-Rose.
Woodbine.
Zinnia:
Foxglove and zinnia fold their colors - Lou Barrett "Brief Truance"
Left the gladioli & zinnias maimed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
A vase of mint sprigs and zinnias - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
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