wild flower

noun

wild or uncultivated flowering plant

• Syn: ↑wildflower

• Hypernyms: ↑angiosperm, ↑flowering plant, ↑wilding

• Hyponyms:

↑sagebrush buttercup, ↑Ranunculus glaberrimus, ↑pasqueflower, ↑pasque flower, ↑meadow rue, ↑sand verbena, ↑trailing four o'clock, ↑trailing windmills, ↑Allionia incarnata, ↑red maids, ↑redmaids, ↑Calandrinia ciliata, ↑siskiyou lewisia, ↑Lewisia cotyledon, ↑bitterroot, ↑Lewisia rediviva, ↑pussy-paw, ↑pussy-paws, ↑pussy's-paw, ↑Spraguea umbellatum, ↑Calyptridium umbellatum, ↑flame flower, ↑flame-flower, ↑flameflower, ↑Talinum aurantiacum, ↑woolly daisy, ↑dwarf daisy, ↑Antheropeas wallacei, ↑Eriophyllum wallacei, ↑heartleaf arnica, ↑Arnica cordifolia, ↑Arnica montana, ↑false chamomile, ↑oxeye, ↑golden aster, ↑hawk's-beard, ↑hawk's-beards, ↑brittlebush, ↑brittle bush, ↑incienso, ↑Encelia farinosa, ↑sunray, ↑Enceliopsis nudicaulis, ↑engelmannia, ↑fleabane, ↑woolly sunflower, ↑gaillardia, ↑desert sunflower, ↑Gerea canescens, ↑goldenbush, ↑heliopsis, ↑hairy golden aster, ↑prairie golden aster, ↑Heterotheca villosa, ↑Chrysopsis villosa, ↑alpine gold, ↑alpine hulsea, ↑Hulsea algida, ↑dwarf hulsea, ↑Hulsea nana, ↑goldfields, ↑Lasthenia chrysostoma, ↑hawkbit, ↑edelweiss, ↑Leontopodium alpinum, ↑north island edelweiss, ↑Leucogenes leontopodium, ↑blazing star, ↑button snakeroot, ↑gayfeather, ↑gay-feather, ↑snakeroot, ↑tahoka daisy, ↑tansy leaf aster, ↑Machaeranthera tanacetifolia, ↑sticky aster, ↑Machaeranthera bigelovii, ↑Mojave aster, ↑Machaeranthera tortifoloia, ↑common madia, ↑common tarweed, ↑Madia elegans, ↑blackfoot daisy, ↑Melampodium leucanthum, ↑coneflower, ↑nodding groundsel, ↑Senecio bigelovii, ↑butterweed, ↑ragwort, ↑Senecio glabellus, ↑arrowleaf groundsel, ↑Senecio triangularis, ↑goldenrod, ↑stemless golden weed, ↑Stenotus acaulis, ↑Haplopappus acaulis, ↑northern dune tansy, ↑Tanacetum douglasii, ↑stemless hymenoxys, ↑Tetraneuris acaulis, ↑Hymenoxys acaulis, ↑old man of the mountain, ↑alpine sunflower, ↑Tetraneuris grandiflora, ↑Hymenoxys grandiflora, ↑yellow salsify, ↑Tragopogon dubius, ↑meadow salsify, ↑goatsbeard, ↑shepherd's clock, ↑Tragopogon pratensis, ↑mule's ears, ↑Wyethia amplexicaulis, ↑white-rayed mule's ears, ↑Wyethia helianthoides, ↑Indian pipe, ↑waxflower, ↑Monotropa uniflora, ↑pinesap, ↑false beachdrops, ↑Monotropa hypopithys, ↑snow plant, ↑Sarcodes sanguinea, ↑prairie gentian, ↑tulip gentian, ↑bluebell, ↑Eustoma grandiflorum, ↑coast boykinia, ↑Boykinia elata, ↑Boykinia occidentalis, ↑leatherleaf saxifrage, ↑Leptarrhena pyrolifolia, ↑prairie star, ↑Lithophragma parviflorum, ↑fringed grass of Parnassus, ↑Parnassia fimbriata, ↑false alumroot, ↑fringe cups, ↑Tellima grandiflora, ↑false miterwort, ↑false mitrewort, ↑Tiarella unifoliata, ↑kitten-tails, ↑Indian paintbrush, ↑painted cup, ↑purple chinese houses, ↑innocense, ↑Collinsia bicolor, ↑Collinsia heterophylla, ↑maiden blue-eyed Mary, ↑Collinsia parviflora, ↑blue-eyed Mary, ↑Collinsia verna, ↑golden-beard penstemon, ↑Penstemon barbatus, ↑scarlet bugler, ↑Penstemon centranthifolius, ↑Platte River penstemon, ↑Penstemon cyananthus, ↑Davidson's penstemon, ↑Penstemon davidsonii, ↑hot-rock penstemon, ↑Penstemon deustus, ↑Jones' penstemon, ↑Penstemon dolius, ↑shrubby penstemon, ↑lowbush penstemon, ↑Penstemon fruticosus, ↑narrow-leaf penstemon, ↑Penstemon linarioides, ↑mountain pride, ↑Penstemon newberryi, ↑balloon flower, ↑scented penstemon, ↑Penstemon palmeri, ↑Parry's penstemon, ↑Penstemon parryi, ↑rock penstemon, ↑cliff penstemon, ↑Penstemon rupicola, ↑Rydberg's penstemon, ↑Penstemon rydbergii, ↑cascade penstemon, ↑Penstemon serrulatus, ↑Whipple's penstemon, ↑Penstemon whippleanus, ↑wild carrot, ↑Queen Anne's lace, ↑Daucus carota

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Wild flowers include:

Aaron's rod

ale hoof

bird's foot trefoil

birth-wort

bistort

black-eyed susan

bladder campion

bluebell

broomrape

butter-and-eggs

buttercup

campion

celandine

clary

clustered bellflower

clover

columbine

comfrey

common evening-primrose

common mallow

common toadflax

cowslip

crane's bill

crowfoot

cuckoo flower

daisy

edelweiss

field cow-wheat

foxglove

goatsbeard

goldcup

goldenrod

great mullein

harebell

heartsease

heather

horsetail

lady's slipper

lady's smock

lungwort

marguerite

masterwort

moneywort

multiflora rose

New England aster

oxeye daisy

oxslip

pennyroyal

poppy

primrose

ragged robin

rock rose

rough-fruited cinquefoil

self-heal

shepherd's club

solomon's seal

stiff-haired sunflower

stonecrop

teasel

toadflax

violet

water lily

white campion

wild chicory

wild endive

wild gladiolus

wild iris

wild orchid

wild pansy

wood anemone

yarrow

yellow rocket

See also weed.

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noun

: the flower of a wild or uncultivated plant; also : the plant bearing such a flower

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wild flower UK US noun [countable] [singular wild flower plural wild flowers]

a flower that grows in fields or in the countryside rather than in gardens

Thesaurus: general types of plant_hypernym parts of plants_meronym

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wild flower, or wild|flow|er «WYLD _FLOW uhr», noun.

1. any uncultivated flowering plant.

2. the flower of such a plant.