Birth Month Flowers and Their Meanings

The Meaning of Different Birth Month Flowers

Birth months carry deep significance in many cultures around the world. Each birth month is believed to have its own energies and symbolism represented through birth flowers, stones, trees, and even Tarot cards. These associations reflect personality traits, characteristics, and possible life paths.

The ancient Romans believed that flowers blooming during a particular month brought luck and shaped the personalities of those born during that time. Though the flowers that flourish and bloom during each month vary greatly depending on location and climate across the globe, each month’s designated flowers are probably blooming during that set time period.

What Is My Birth Flower?

Most months have both a primary and secondary flower. This can be attributed to cultural differences, local climates, and flora variations. This gives you two options to find the birth flower that resonates most with you. You may even discover that you feel connected to both your birth flowers!

Below is a list of the different birth month flowers and their meanings. For a more personalized breakdown of what your birth flowers mean for you, consider speaking to an expert Life Path Psychic for insight.

January Birth Month Flowers: Carnation and Snowdrop

January, the first birth month of the year, has beautiful, delicate flowers that are nonetheless resilient enough to make it through the winter.

Primary Birth Flower: Carnations

Carnations are typically ruffled, double-blooming flowers with fringed petals and a spicy fragrance. They’re one of the few flowers that can bloom in cool weather and are intolerant of high heat, making them an easy fit for a winter birth month. Carnations are also said to symbolize love and warmth, which is what babies born during this cold winter month bring to the world.

Secondary Birth Flower: Snowdrops

Snowdrops are bell-shaped, white flowers. According to myth, these flowers were once snowflakes. They’re appropriate to give in times of sadness and joy alike, as they represent both compassion and hope. Snowdrops are often one of the first flowers to bloom, making them a perfect match for the starting month of the year. 

January’s birthstone is garnet—discover its meaning.

February Birth Month Flowers: Violet and Primrose

The second month of the year, often associated with love, contains flowers that traditionally symbolize sweetness and durability.

Primary Birth Flower: Violets

Violets are flowers with five petals, typically in a shade of purple or blue, and large, heart-shaped leaves. They tend to form clumps, perhaps pointing to the need to gather your community around you for warmth in this cold month. Wild violets may be considered weeds because they spread quickly and are difficult to remove, indicating a steadfastness that is beneficial for weathering the harsh season of winter. Violets are linked to humility, mystical awareness, and spiritual passion.

Secondary Birth Flower: Primrose

Primrose is typically a short plant with cream, yellow, or orange flowers and wrinkled leaves. It tends to bloom in early spring, and fittingly, its name means “the first rose” in Latin. Primrose symbolizes new beginnings, which are also linked to the shifting seasons from winter to spring. Additionally, these flowers are sometimes thought to facilitate spiritual connection between worlds.

February’s birthstone is amethyst—discover its meaning.

March Birth Month Flowers: Daffodil and Cherry Blossom

March, toward the end of winter and beginning of spring, has flowers that represent the month’s transitional nature. Its secondary flower is also a common subject of debate, with some saying that it has no secondary flower, and others naming the jonquil as its secondary flower rather than the cherry blossom.

Primary Birth Flower: Daffodil

Daffodils are a single bloom on a tall stem with petals surrounding a long trumpet, most commonly yellow or white. As one of the first joyful signs that winter is over and spring has arrived, they symbolize rebirth. Their cheerful coloring and buoyant trumpet bloom offer a reminder to look toward the future with hope and optimism, as does the month of March after the long expanse of winter.

Secondary Birth Flower: Cherry Blossom

The cherry blossom or “sakura” is Japan’s national flower. These delicate pink flowers bloom in late March or early April, and they’re often associated with the burgeoning spring. Despite their beauty and vibrancy, cherry blossoms only linger for a brief time. As a result, cherry blossoms are often associated with new life, purity, and brevity — a reminder that all good things pass, only to eventually return in a different form.

March’s birthstone is aquamarine—discover its meaning.

April Birth Month Flowers: Daisy and Sweet Pea

The first full month of spring, April’s birth month flowers represent the beauty and brightness of spring.

Primary Birth Flower: Daisies

Daisies are flowers composed of a single layer of thin, usually white or yellow petals around a bright yellow center. They’re known for being adaptable and able to grow in a variety of climates. They close their petals at night and reopen them in the morning. Daisies symbolize innocence, purity, loyalty, patience, and simplicity, which are also characteristics linked to the season of spring.

Secondary Birth Flower: Sweet Peas

Sweet peas are a climbing plant with a single or cluster of flowers shaped like a butterfly. This flower shares its name with a term of endearment. They bloom from the winter to the spring. The sweet pea represents blissful pleasure, good wishes, kindness, and gratitude. Much like the weather fluctuation that April can bring, sweet peas change their scent depending on the time of day or the weather.

April’s birthstone is diamond—discover its meaning.

May Birth Month Flower: Lily of the Valley and Hawthorn

May, one of the most floral seasons, is host to two striking and resilient flowers.

Birth Flower: Lily of the Valley

Lilies of the Valley have small bell-shaped flowers that droop to the side of their stalk. They’re hardy and erosion-resistant, and the flowers bloom only during May. Lilies of the Valley are said to be capable of measuring the purity of one’s spirit, and many cultures view them as a sign of good luck.

Birth Flower: Hawthorns

Hawthorns are trees that grow small white or pink flowers. The flowers usually grow in clusters, pointing to the collective nature of the communal gatherings that accompany the weather’s warming. Hawthorns play a pivotal role in their ecosystems, providing shelter for many bird species and feeding a variety of animal species with their fruit. The blooming of the hawthorn’s flowers signifies a time of renewed energy and healing. These blooms encourage you to tend to your heart’s desires, especially any that you’ve been putting on the back burner, mimicking the environment that has warmed back to life.

May’s birthstone is emerald—discover its meaning.

June Birth Month Flowers: Rose and Honeysuckle

Representing the end of spring and the very start of summer, June is associated with two of the most well-known flowers.

Primary Birth Flower: Roses

Roses have thorny stems with glossy leaves and layered flowers that come in various colors. They’re highly sought after and sometimes held as the standard of beauty for flowers — a fitting connection for the value placed on the first month of summer. The rose is believed to be a bridge between divine realms and earth. This flower doesn’t shy away from the presentation of beauty, nor does it deny the need for protective thorns, much like the beauty of summer that also calls for particular protective measures.

Secondary Birth Flower: Honeysuckles

Honeysuckles are bushy plants with long, tubular flowers, commonly growing in pairs. The flowers take respite from the June heat by blooming at night. Fittingly, they’re pollinated mostly by hawkmoths who feed at night, as their tube-shaped flowers are too long for most other insects to reach the nectar. Many people feel that summer is infused with positive energy, so it seems fair that June’s secondary flower is seen as a deterrent for negative or evil spirits and energy.

June’s birthstones are moonstone, pearl, and alexandrite—discover their meanings.

July Birth Month Flowers: Larkspur and Water Lily

One of the hottest months of the year, July hosts two birth month flowers that represent both summer’s intensity and also its understated grace.

Primary Birth Flower: Larkspur

Larkspur is a tall stalk with leaves on its bottom half and flowers on top. As the summer month of July bursts with bold temperatures, larkspur blossoms with color. The flowers typically come in shades of purple, blue, or white, and their bright petals are useful in creating dyes. When you give larkspur in a bouquet, you communicate that your heart is open. Larkspur represents all the cornerstone energies of the season: lightness, fun, and humor. 

Secondary Birth Flower: Water Lilies

Water lilies have large, floating circular leaves and big, long-petaled, solitary flowers. They provide food for fish and wildlife and recharge their ecosystem, as the energy of July charges the planet with light and heat. The many petals of the flowers are arranged in a spiral, symbolizing rebirth and enlightenment. These short-lived summer flowers bloom for four days, symbolizing the widely shared sentiment that summer comes and goes all too fast.

July’s birthstone is ruby—discover its meaning.

August Birth Month Flowers: Gladiolus and Poppy

Just as summer’s heat begins to cool slightly, August arrives. This month’s birth flowers represent its steadfastness and subtle beauty.

Primary Birth Flower: Gladiolus

Gladiolus has sword-shaped leaves and extravagant flowers that grow vertically up the stalk. These flowers have been nicknamed “sword lilies.” Gladiolus are some of the showiest of summer garden flowers, not outdone by July flowers, exploding with summer exuberance. They represent strength of character, faithfulness, and moral integrity.

Secondary Birth Flower: Poppies

Poppies are shorter plants with large, single flowers. The flowers typically have around four or five big petals and come in almost every color. Though each poppy flower tends to have a short life, they usually grow in groups and bloom in waves, providing a vibrant show for an extended length of time. With this pattern, the poppy highlights the beauty and power of community, which seems to flow with a particular ease during the summer months.

Poppies symbolize consolation, remembrance, and death, and they are often placed on graves to symbolize eternal sleep. This flower reminds us even before we’ve reached the end of the season that summer will pass, and we will move on through the rest of the year, adding to our appreciation for the present moment.

August’s birthstone is peridot—discover its meaning.

September Birth Month Flowers: Aster and Morning Glory

The month that represents the transition into harvest season, September is associated with stunning flowers that represent change, much like the turning of the leaves.

Primary Birth Flower: Aster

Aster flowers grow on bushes that produce large clusters of flowers. They resemble daisies with collections of long, thin petals arranged around a yellow center. They’re known for blooming in late summer to early fall, heralding the coming of autumn. Asters embody the energies of wisdom, faith, and valor, which are important influences to lean upon as we bid summer farewell and embark upon the adventure of autumn. 

Secondary Birth Flower: Morning Glory

Morning glory is a fast-growing vine that produces new delicate flowers daily. The flowers open in the morning and close in the early afternoon. They bloom from early summer to early fall, providing a sense of cohesion as we move between the seasons. Morning glory symbolizes the crystallized energies of summer that we can carry with us as we move through the next stages in the cycle: love, purity, and spiritual enlightenment.

September’s birthstone is sapphire—discover its meaning.

October Birth Month Flowers: Marigold and Cosmos

This autumn month is associated often with the thinning of the veil. As such, October’s birth flowers represent spiritual and universal connection.

Primary Birth Flower: Marigolds

Marigolds are short plants with pom-pom-like blooms of frilled, layered petals in various shades of yellow, orange, and red. These plants act as natural pesticides and make a great addition to any garden. October is a time of year when the veil between the worlds of living and dead becomes very thin, and marigolds are thought to aid in the bridging between those worlds, often being heavily featured in Day of the Dead celebrations.

Secondary Birth Flower: Cosmos

Cosmos grow long, tall stalks with single flowers at the end. The petals are typically wide and cluster around a center disk. These flowers have a habit of self-seeding, bringing an important reminder about the humble beginnings of the growth process, which can sometimes feel far away and difficult to recall in October. Cosmos derive their name from the Greek word for harmony and symbolize order and balance, offering us the wise reminder that this autumnal month is an important piece in the cycle of growth and rebirth.

October’s birthstones are opal and tourmaline—discover their meanings.

November Month Birth Flowers: Chrysanthemum and Peony

November’s flowers warn of the winter ahead, blooming beautifully despite the changing weather.

Primary Birth Flower: Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums vary from a daisy-like appearance to more pom-pom-like in presentation. They’re one of the most popular flowers in the world. A tea is sometimes derived from these flowers that is thought to help soothe head and lung congestion, common ailments for this late autumnal month. This hardy flower represents a prosperous life, positive growth, joy, and unwavering optimism — extremely important energies to hold close in November as the days get shorter and the cold begins to creep in.

Secondary Birth Flower: Peonies

Peonies are fluffy round flowers with layers of puffy petals arranged around a central disk. Properly cared for, peonies can live decades. The peony prefers colder temperatures, making it a great fit for the final full month of fall. Peonies carry the torch of opulence and prosperity as we head deeper into the phase of dormancy, which is characteristic of this part of the seasonal cycle.

November’s birthstones are topaz and citrine—discover their meanings.

December Birth Month Flowers: Holly and Narcissus

The last month of the year (and one of the coldest), December has flowers that represent strength, beauty, and brightness.

Primary Birth Flower: Holly

Holly is a tree with stiff, leathery, spined leaves that grow clusters of small four-petaled flowers that eventually turn into red berries. Mate, a popular drink in South America, is made from a plant in the holly family. The shiny, evergreen holly catches the light when the sun breaks through, reminding us of life’s enduring nature even from beneath the layers of winter’s blanket.

Secondary Birth Flower: Narcissus

Narcissus is a six-petaled, trumpet-shaped flower that is related to the daffodil. Typically, the species with short-trumpeted flowers are called narcissus, while the longer-trumpeted flowers are called daffodils. This flower shares its name with the mortal son of two Greek deities in mythology, known for falling in love with his own reflection. Narcissus flowers represent creativity, inspiration, self-reflection, and forgiveness, a potent combination of energies to fuel us through the longest nights of the year.

December’s birthstones are turquoise, tanzanite, and zircon—discover their meanings.

How To Use Your Birth Month Flower

Birth flower knowledge can be wielded as a potent tool. For instance, if you’re struggling to get in touch with the celebratory energies of your own birth season, fill your home with your birth flowers, open your arms to their energy, and soak it in.

Similarly, gifting others their birth flowers is a great way to show your appreciation and affection.

Additionally, if you’re having difficulty aligning your spirit with the current seasonal energy, you can bring the flowers associated with that month into your life to give yourself a season-specific energy boost.

If you find yourself yearning to know more about your own birth flower, a reading with one of our Life Path Psychics would be a great place to find out about how they interact with your personal energy and journey. For more insight about your destiny & your astrological chart, get your free birth chart report today, find an Astrology Psychic, or learn more about Astrology Readings.

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