Growing flowers is always a good idea, but growing the ones with a unique color always stands out from the rest! Here’s an exclusive list of Types of Green Flowers that you must grow if you are a plant connoisseur!

Check out our article on the beautiful black and white flowers here

Best Types of Green Flowers

1. Green Rose

Botanical name: Rosa

Greensleeves Rose blooms in lime green to sea green color that looks divine, making it one of the best types of green flowers on the list!

Popular Varieties: Mint Julep Rose, St Patrick Rose, Greensleeves Rose, Green Ice Rose

Have a look at the best types of Roses here

2. Green Hellebores

Botanical name: Helleborus viridis

This beautiful perennial flowers in February-May, in leathery leaves, with a center, ornamented in the cluster of thread-like petals.

Popular Varieties: Corsican hellebore, Stinking hellebore, Helleborus foetidus

3. Cymbidium Orchid

Botanical name: Cymbidium

Cymbidium Orchid is an easy-to-maintain variety of orchids. It blossoms in winters with a bunch of flowers that grow on each stem. This surely is one of the best types of green flowers on the list!

Popular Varieties: Alice Williams, Autumn Green ‘Geyserland’, Blue Smoke ‘Green Meadow,’ Blue Smoke ‘Pernod,’ Conejo ‘Eau De Nil’

Here are the best types of Orchids you can grow

4. Green Chrysanthemum

Botanical name: Chrysanthemum

Commonly known as mums, available in hundreds of varieties and comes with different colors, sizes, and flowers.

Popular Varieties: Key Lime, Green Mist, Lime Green Mist, Star Mist, Star Mist Yellow, Green Star

Check out our article on growing Chrysanthemum in pots here! 

5. Envy Zinnia

Botanical name: Zinnia elegans

Zinnia is also known as youth and age. It is a drought-resistant flower that blossoms annually. Envy zinnia blooms in a lime tone and turns green with time.

Popular Varieties: Queen Lime, Envy

6. Green Daylily

Botanical name: Hemerocallis

The beautiful and delicate flower grows in a trumpet-like shape with strings in the center. Daylily has a short span of life that lasts for only one day.

Popular Varieties: Green Iceberg, Green Puff, Green Glitter, Green Flutter

7. Green Dianthus

Botanical name: Dianthus barbatus

This delicate perennial is quite rare with a fuzzy, ball-like appearance. Dianthus has a spicy fragrance, and they belong to the carnation family.

Popular Variety: Green Ball, Green Trick

8. Green Star Gladiolus

Botanical name: Gladiolus hortulanus

The green star grows in tall ruffled flower spikes – the flower bulb is termed as corms. It is one of the best types of green flowers on the list!

Popular Variety: Gladiolus ‘Green Lace’

9. Bells of Ireland

Botanical name: Moluccela laevis

Also known as Moluccela Balmis and shell flower. The beautiful green flowers bloom in the shape of bells.

10. Hypericum Berries

Botanical name: Hypericum androsaemum

Hypericum is also called St. John’s wort. The oval-shaped, berry-like flowers are popular in floral bouquets.

Popular Variety: Hypericum Green

11. Green Anastasia Spider

Botanical name: Dendrathema grandiflorum

Anastasia spider green flowers are a variety of spider mum that comes from the daisy family of plants. The flower petals are long and thin, which resemble spider legs. This soft flower is used in floral arrangements.

12. Green Goddess Lily

Botanical name: Zantedeschia aethiopica

Calla Lily is an appealing and elegant flower, commonly known as Arum lily. The flower is easy to grow in containers as well with low requirements. It is one of the best types of green flowers on the list!

Check out our article on growing Arum Lily here! 

13. Green Cockscomb

Botanical name: Celosia

Celosia comes from the Amaranth (Amaranthaceae) family. There are varieties available in striking green shades.

Popular Variety: Celosia Spring Green

14. Hydrangea Annabelle

Botanical name: Hydrangea arborescence ‘Annabelle’

These charming flowers are going to enhance the beauty of your garden! Hydrangea blossoms in small flowers with large heads. It is one of the best types of green flowers on the list!

Check out our article on pruning Hydrangeas here! 

15. Flowering Tobacco

Botanical name: Nicotiana ‘lime green’

Nicotiana flowers are fragrant with a jasmine-like scent and blooms in delightful pale green to pink color.

16. Green Tulips

Botanical name: Tulipa

Tulips are very famous among the florist. These flowers have the slightest hue of green in them. They thrive in white and green shades.

Popular Variety: Chinatown, Formosa

17. Angelica

Botanical name: Angelica

This flowering plant is an edible, biennial herb, popularly known as wild celery. Also, you can use its roots and stalks to prepare aromatic tea and green salads.

Popular Variety: Wild celery, Seacoast Angelica, and Mountain Angelica

18. Green Clematis

Botanical name: Clematis Florida Alba Pena

Clematis flowers from June to October. They come in the shade of white but change to lime green with time. It is surely one of the best types of green flowers on the list!

Have a look at the best types of Clematis here

19. Viridiflora

Botanical name: Rosa chinensis

Viridiflora is the oldest variety and grows without petals. Unlike other varieties of roses, they are scentless.

20. Greenflower Indian Mallow

Botanical name: Abutilon sandwicense

With delightful heart-shaped leaves and matching green-yellow sepals, this is quite a striking plant to look at, especially with its petals that come in a bright shade of green.

21. Dahlia

Botanical name: Dahlia

This beautiful flowering plant makes for an excellent choice for flower cut arrangements. While this spiky petaled plant is not frost-hardy but it can grow tubers every year provided it is protected from the harsh winters.

Are Dahlia deer resistant? Find out here

22. Carnations

Botanical name: Dianthus caryophyllus

This flowering plant is also called the clove pink and found in different shades including green. It is most popular for St. Patrick’s Day festival and can be found in floral arrangements and decor to mark the special holiday.

23. Lady’s Slipper Orchid

Botanical name: Orchid cypripedium

This unique perennial could be found in most of Canada and the eastern United States. It gets its name from its strange appearance resembling a lady’s slipper. This flower grows best in moist, well-aerated soil and in full or partial shade.

  • Olga Swartz
  • August 14, 2020 At 10:14 am
  • Thank you for showing us these beautiful green fowers. It would be most helpful if you would include sources for purchasing some of these. The green chrisanthemums exist but are nowhere to be found as plants one can buy except in the EU. How strange.
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  • Gytha
  • March 29, 2021 At 2:53 pm
  • Try grouping tall flowering branches with shorter flowering stems for a pretty trio like in the kitchen of my  Cido Project .
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  • eileen
  • April 20, 2021 At 2:35 am
  • #9 is euphorbia, not bells of ireland
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  • Jenisha Zalavadiya
  • June 30, 2021 At 10:45 am
  • cactus
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Thank you for showing us these beautiful green fowers. It would be most helpful if you would include sources for purchasing some of these. The green chrisanthemums exist but are nowhere to be found as plants one can buy except in the EU. How strange.

Try grouping tall flowering branches with shorter flowering stems for a pretty trio like in the kitchen of my  Cido Project .

#9 is euphorbia, not bells of ireland

cactus

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