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Flowers that start with C
The full list of flowers starting with C: 28 names, taken from the 197 answers to “Name a flower” in Icillion.
Flowers that begin with C
- Calibrachoaalso Million bells
- California poppy
- Calla lilyalso Calla
- Camassia
- Camellia
- Carnation
- Cattleya
- Celosia
- Chamomile
- Cherry blossom
- Chionodoxaalso Glory-of-the-snow
- Christmas cactus
- Chrysanthemum
- Clematis
- Cleomealso Spider flower
- Clivia
- Clover
- Columbinealso Aquilegia
- Conefloweralso Echinacea
- Coreopsis
- Cornflower
- Corpse floweralso Titan arum
- Cosmos
- Cowslip
- Cranesbill
- Crocus
- Cyclamen
- Cymbidium
About this list
- C is the most common first letter in this list: 28 of the 197 flowers (14%).
- Shortest: “Cleome”. Longest: “Christmas cactus”.
- 5 names have more than one word.
- 7 can be spelled more than one way, and all the spellings count.
Quick answers
- How many flowers start with C?
- 28 of the 197 flowers in Icillion start with C, for example Carnation, Chrysanthemum and Cherry blossom.
- What is the longest name among flowers that start with C?
- The longest is “Christmas cactus” and the shortest is “Cleome”.
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