Purple Flowers

Purple flowers are a popular addition to many gardens and feature prominently in elegant floral bouquets. Famed for their powerful yet calming hues, purple flowering annual and perennial plants bring a touch of grandeur, nobility, extravagance, and even a few royal-esque notes to borders, planters, flower beds, and cut flower arrangements. Here you’ll find 100 of our absolute favorite purple flowers featuring the likes of alliums, hydrangeas, zinnias, primroses, and balloon flowers.

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Purple Zinnia

Types Of Purple

Flowers Types

Purple Flowering Plants

Purple Zinnia (Zinnia) Flowers

The Zinnia genus encompasses a wide range of colorful annual flowers that are related to daisies and sunflowers. Most are in the red and yellow colors, but purple and pink varieties are also available. Zinnias are some of the easiest annual flowers to grow from seed and will self-seed themselves if you don’t deadhead them.

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Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Yesterday Today Tomorrow (Brunfelsia pauciflora) Flowers

Yesterday Today Tomorrow is a flowering shrub that is covered in flowers similar to pansies or violets, making them attractive additions to any walkway or formal garden. It’s a tropical evergreen plant and is restricted to either indoor cultivation or use only in warmer climates.

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Mauve Flowers

Attract Butterflies

Purple Wood phlox (Phlox divaricata) Flowers

Wood phlox is a native wildflower that spreads by creating large clumps of dense growth. Bright blue to mauve flowers with five petals attract butterflies, but you’ll need to keep the plants well-watered through the heat of the summer. This type of phlox tends to stay shorter than other pink flowering species.

Wisteria Sinensis

Wisteria Plant

Purple Wisteria

Purple Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) Flowers

Wisteria is a unique plant native to China and Japan that can grow as both a vine or a tree. When it can get support from a trellis or other plant, it will vine over it and bloom profusely with sweetly scented clusters of light purple blossoms. Wisteria planted on its own will grow a trunk and take on a tree shape, still blooming profusely after a few years.

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Purple Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis) Flowers

Wild indigo isn’t actually an indigo, but it has beautiful blue to purple flowers similar to the plant it’s named after. It needs little watering or fertilizer and grows well in poor soils. Some gardeners grow it specifically for the attractive seed pods instead and let it stand all winter.

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Wild Hyacinth

Garden Soil

Perennial Plants

Purple Wild Hyacinth (Dichelostemma capitatum)

Wild hyacinth grows from a buried corm to create a tall stem with only a handful of leaves and a cluster of crocus-like flowers. Mauve petals surround orange stamens for a beautiful contrast of colors. It’s native to California’s coastal deserts and prairies, but it’s grown in many dry areas.

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Evergreen Shrubs

Purple Waxflower (Chamelaucium)

Related to myrtles and tea trees, the waxflower is a tropical evergreen shrub with large distinctive flowers. Five-petaled pink or purple flowers form along the needled boughs, and the waxy feel of them gives the plant its name. The leaves are aromatic when crushed, but the flowers themselves have little to no scent.

The Wallflower

Purple Wallflowers (Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’)

Of all the wallflower varieties, ‘Bowles’s Mauve’ has some of the brightest and most colorful blossoms. The dense clusters of flowers rise high above the grass-like foliage, allowing these flowers to stand out in any bed or border. It can also cascade over edges and walls if planted where there is space to sprawl sideways.

Purpletop Vervain

Purple Verbena

Verbena Bonariensis

Purple Verbena (Verbena bonariensis) Flowers

Whether it’s called Verbena or purpletop vervain, this flowering herb is a fast-growing way to add purple to any bed. It can reach 6 feet in height with fertile soil, so make it the tall back layer of a mixed bed or container. It’s a perennial in many areas, but grows fast enough to be a worthwhile annual in other zones.

Perennial Bulbs

Purple Tulips

Purple Tulips (Tulipa)

The Tulipa genus includes hundreds of different species and varieties of related perennial bulbs that all share a common cup shaped flower. With colorful splotches and painted edges in every color combination, these spring blooms are a great way to brighten up a landscape. No wonder they’ve caused multiple gardening crazes over the last few centuries.

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Throatwort (Trachelium caeruleum)

Low maintenance throatwort is eye-catching thanks to hundreds of tiny tubular flowers all clustered along the top of the plant. The royal purple to navy blue colors are great for beds that need a burst of color, while the rich nectar supply nurtures bees and butterflies.

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Ground Cover

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) Flowers

Teasel is a tall flowering plant that is considered a weed in some areas and a desirable source of food for birds in others. It produces rounded and spiky flower heads that can rise 8 feet above the ground and only blooms every other year. The flowers are slightly purple to mauve colored, but they’re generally not attractive enough to be planted for ornamental use.

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Sweet Rocket

Sweet rocket (Hesperis matrionalis) Flowers

Sweet rocket is often mistaken for phlox, but this pink to purple herb only has four petals on each flower. A tall stalk covered in arrow-shaped leaves is topped by clusters of the smaller flowers. It’s ideal for creating tall borders along the edges of paths and beds, but it can spread easily and become invasive.

Spring Blooming Flowers

Lathyrus Odoratus

Sweet Fragrances

Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus) Flowers

Few spring blooming flowers are as colorful and charming as the Sweet Pea. Not only do these pea like flowers usually sport two or more colors, they also have strong sweet fragrances that give them their names. Many varieties bloom through July, especially in cooler climates.

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Summer Snapdragon

Blooms All Summer

Summer Snapdragon (Serenita angelonia) Flowers

Summer snapdragon isn’t really a snapdragon, but rather a sprawling flowering plant that can produce blooms all summer long. Bicolor varieties bring a lot of color to small spaces, while pink, white, and purple blooms are also common. The fragrant flowers are attractive to beneficial insects and make great cut flowers.