Flowers have been speaking for us for centuries — we’ve just gathered their voices in one place. This site brings together generations of historical dictionaries and references, countless books and online sources, and fresh meanings for the many flowers and plants hybridized in just the last 50 to 100 years.
It’s not a new language of flowers. It’s the whole language, finally in one place — and still growing.
Discover the art of expressing emotion through nature’s most elegant language.
This dictionary is the companion reference to two published books — The Posy Book (2019) and Modern Floriography (2026) — both by Teresa H. Sabankaya. It’s the online home for her life’s work: over 25 years of compiling the language of flowers, and counting.
This collection will never truly be finished. As new plants are bred and hybridized, new flowers keep appearing — flowers the language hasn’t caught up to yet.
That’s where floriography comes in. To tell stories and send messages through flowers, every flower needs a meaning — so when we find one that doesn’t have one, we give it one.
Found a flower or plant that’s missing from our dictionary? Hit the contact button and tell us about it — we’ll research it and add it in.
